Kaulback’s torrent frog, Amalops kaulbacki, is a rare frog known from two specimens found in 1937-39 in Pangnamdim, northern Myanmar. One further report located a specimen in Mizoram, India (Sailo et al. 2007, as cited in Frost 2016).The habitat of this frog is pristine rainforest, and in Myanmar is encompassed by Hkakabo Razi National Park. Little is known about this species or its population, but based on other Amalops species, it is likely that it inhabits fast-moving streams.
Kaulback’s torrent frog is the only Amalops species reported with head width larger than head length (Yang 1991).It is a large frog, the two specimens (both males) measuring 70-72 mm in snout vent length. Smith’s (1940) account reports them as bluish above, green in life with black spots and marblings; numerous black crossbars on limbs, hind parts of thighs yellowish, and belly grayish (Yang, 1991). Dubois (1974) suggests Amalops kaulbacki is a subspecies of A. afghanus, and that A. lifanensis is synonymous with A. kaulbacki.Yang (1991) rejects both of these hypotheses, and considers both A. kaulbacki and A. lifanensis “good species.”
Amolops kaulbacki (common names: Burmese sucker frog, Kaulback's torrent frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is found in northern Myanmar and Mizoram in northeastern India.[3] It is named after Ronald Kaulback, a British botanist and explorer[4] who collected the type series.[2] Very little is known about this species.[1]
Amolops kaulbacki (common names: Burmese sucker frog, Kaulback's torrent frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is found in northern Myanmar and Mizoram in northeastern India. It is named after Ronald Kaulback, a British botanist and explorer who collected the type series. Very little is known about this species.
