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Polypedates maculatus
Range
South Asia
Size
7-8cm
Polypedates maculatus, known as the Indian tree frog or Chunam tree frog, is a common tree frog of South Asia. Adults measure about 7-8 cm in body length. They are mostly brownish, yellowish, greyish or whitish above, with darker spots or markings, and rarely have an hourglass-shaped figure on the back of the head and the front of the back. The nostril sits much nearer to the end of the snout than to the eye (Wikipedia, general species account).
The Himalayan tree frog was for a time treated as a subspecies of this frog, but is now considered a separate species again. Polypedates leucomystax, a very similar species, was formerly included in P. maculatus. The frogs may use day roosts regularly, and their call is a sudden short, rapid series of rattling rat-tats (Wikipedia, general species account).