#1996 · 🐸 amphibians
Temple Tree Frog
Kurixalus idiootocus
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © 曾粲然 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © CHUNG CHANG-LIN · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Ben Tsai蔡維哲 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Shipher Wu · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Amaël Borzée · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Shipher Wu · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © 丸善斯基 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © CHUNG CHANG-LIN · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Kurixalus idiootocus is a small species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family. It is endemic to Taiwan and is commonly known as the temple tree frog . Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes and irrigated land. It is listed as being of "Least Concern" by the IUCN although there may be some destruction of its habitat.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,605 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Mitsuru Kuramoto in 1987 (39 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Temple Tree Frog
- scientific name
- Kurixalus idiootocus
- class
- Amphibia
- order
- Anura
- family
- Rhacophoridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,605
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1987 by Mitsuru Kuramoto
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Rhacophoridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 26651, Wikidata Q2697838, GBIF 2423834, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.