Chinese edible frog

{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}

{{For|the vulnerable species of frog|Chinese edible frog (Quasipaa)}}

{{Redirect|Taiwanese frog|other frog species found in Taiwan|Frogs of Taiwan}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Chinese edible frog

| image = Hoplobatrachus rugulosus 2.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Arvin Diesmos, Peter Paul van Dijk, Robert Inger, Djoko Iskandar, Michael Wai Neng Lau, Zhao Ermi, Lu Shunqing, Geng Baorong, Lue Kuangyang, Yuan Zhigang, Gu Huiqing, Shi Haitao, Chou Wenhao |date=2004 |title=Hoplobatrachus rugulosus |volume=2004 |page=e.T58300A11760194 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58300A11760194.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| taxon = Hoplobatrachus chinensis

| authority = (Osbeck, 1765)

| synonyms =

• Hoplobatrachus rugulosus (Wiegmann, 1834)
• Rana tigrina ssp. pantherina Steindachner, 1867

}}

The Chinese edible frog (Hoplobatrachus chinensis), also known as East Asian bullfrog and Taiwanese frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pasture land, rural gardens, urban areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, open excavations, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. They breed in spring to early summer.

The domesticated Thai variety and wild Chinese populations of H. chinensis belong to two separate genetic lineages respectively.Yu D, Zhang J, Li P, Zheng R, Shao C (2015) Do Cryptic Species Exist in Hoplobatrachus rugulosus? An Examination Using Four Nuclear Genes, the Cyt b Gene and the Complete MT Genome. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0124825. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124825 Yu et al. (2015) suggest that H. chinensis may in fact be a cryptic species complex.