Polypedates megacephalus

The Hong Kong whipping frog, hourglass whipping frog, hour-glass marked tree frog, spot-legged tree frog, Haut Sanuk frog, yellow tree frog, northern tree frog, or big-headed tree frog (Polypedates megacephalus) is a frog. It lives in Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, China, and Hong Kong. People have seen them between 80 and 2000 meters above sea level.

Polypedates megacephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Genus:	Polypedates
Species:	P. megacephalus
Binomial name
Polypedates megacephalus Hallowell, 1861
Synonyms
Polypedates megacephalus Hallowell, 1861 Polypedates maculatus var. unicolor Müller, 1878 Rana scutigera Andersson, 1916 Rhacophorus leucomystax megacephalus Stejneger, 1925 Hylarana scutigera Bourret, 1942 Rana (Hylarana) scutigera Bourret, 1942 Polypedates megacephalus Matsui, Seto, and Utsunomiya, 1986 Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax megacephalus Dubois, 1987 Rana (Sylvirana) scutigera Ohler, 2003 Hylarana scutigera Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005 Sylvirana scutigera Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 Chalcorana scutigera Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010

This frog can live in many different types of places, for example farms and rice paddies. The female frog lays eggs in ponds or rice paddies. She lays them on grass or in a nest made out of mud.

Scientists believe this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place and because it can live in places that humans have changed.