A preliminary checklist of amphibians of Ulu Paip Recreational Forest, Kedah, Malaysia

Shahrudin Shahriza; Jaafar Ibrahim

doi:10.15560/10.2.253

Check List 10(2): 253-259, doi: 10.15560/10.2.253

A preliminary checklist of amphibians of Ulu Paip Recreational Forest, Kedah, Malaysia

Shahrudin Shahriza^‡, Jaafar Ibrahim^‡

‡ Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Corresponding author: Shahrudin Shahriza ( shahriza20@yahoo.com )

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Shahriza S, Ibrahim J (2014) A preliminary checklist of amphibians of Ulu Paip Recreational Forest, Kedah, Malaysia. Check List 10(2): 253-259. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.2.253

Abstract

Surveys on amphibian species in Ulu Paip Recreational Forest, Kedah were carried out over 12 consecutive months from January 2011 to December 2011. Twenty species of frogs from 11 genera and six families were recorded to inhabit this forest. This study represents the first report of amphibian species from Ulu Paip Recreational Forest.

Keywords

Amphibia; checklist; Malaysia