ID please. Possible gastric brooding frog?

[xavier]

The image on Extinct frog resurrected with ‘de-extinction’ technology | Environment | theguardian.com looks the same as the one that visited me a few months ago when it rained really hard here. I managed to capture a few images of my visitor. Here are the pictures.

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What do you guys think? Are they the same frog? Or it needs to give birth through its mouth first for it to be a gastric brooding frog?

[Mentat]

Hello and welcome to FF. The Gastric Breeding Frog frog they experimented with is from Australia and believed extinct. If you check out your pics against a photo list of frogs in your island; it can help identify it. Might be a related family; they do look similar .

[Bombina Bob]

I wrote an article on mouthbrooding frogs in July for my grade 11 English final, It looks like a GBF but im unsure. Check field guides for frogs of western Australia and see what you can find. Many animals thought to be extinct have been found!

[xavier]

Hello and welcome to FF. The Gastric Breeding Frog frog they experimented with is from Australia and believed extinct. If you check out your pics against a photo list of frogs in your island; it can help identify it. Might be a related family; they do look similar .

Hello Carlos. I searched a bit and found out that the my visitor also looks like an Occidozyga Laevis (Puddle Frog). But the Occidozyga Laevis has a stripe on its back. Maybe my visitor is a occidozyga laevis froglet?

Yes I saw that the GBF is from Australia, just thought that someone might have brought a few specimens here a few decades ago and some might have been released or some might have escaped into the wild and flourished here.

Puddle Frog (Occidozyga laevis; Figure 4.1C), having stout body, very muscular short legs, fully webbed toes, lacking horny teeth and it can live from polluted puddles in areas of human habitation to pools of clear mountain streams (Alcala and Brown 1998). No clear mountain streams in my area, only polluted rivers hahaha.

[xavier]

I wrote an article on mouthbrooding frogs in July for my grade 11 English final, It looks like a GBF but im unsure. Check field guides for frogs of western Australia and see what you can find. Many animals thought to be extinct have been found!

They might not have to spend a lot of money reviving the GBFs if they are thriving here in the Philippines.

[xavier]

I attached a picture of a Puddle Frog (Occidozyga laevis). Looks similar to my visitor.

I want it to be a GBF lol