What Exactly is: The Lungless Frog | Truth Behind the Rare Frog from Indonesia

Barbourula kalimantanensis is an endemic frog from West and Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. In this video, I cover their discovery, how rare they are, our pursuit of knowing more about them, and how they hold the title of the only lungless frog until recently.
Timestamps
0:00 Opening thought
0:27 General information
1:32 Discovery, specimens, and characteristics
5:40 Lunglessness
References
Iskandar, D.T. (1978). A New Species of Barbourula: First Record of a Discoglossid Anuran in Borneo. Copeia, 1978(4): 564. dx.doi.org/10.2307/1443681
Iskandar, D.T. (1995). Note on the Second Specimen of Barbourula kalimantanensis (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 43(2): 309-311. lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/...
Santoso, E. & Shonleben, S. (2006). Barbourula kalimantanensis Iskandar, 1978 - a new record for central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo (Amphibia: Anura: Discoglossidae). Herpetological Bulletin. www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Bickford, D., Iskandar, D.T., & Barlian, A. (2008). A Lungless Frog Discovered on Borneo. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.03...
Rachmayuningtyas, B.A., Bickford, D.P., Kamsi, M., et al. (2011). Conservation status of the only Lungless Frog Barbourula kalimantanensis Iskandar, 1978 (Amphibia: Anura: Bombinatoridae). Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3(8): 1981-1989. www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Kennedi, U.F., Zainudin, Purwanto, S., et al. (2024). Amhibians and Reptiles Diversity in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park, West Kalimantan. Media Konservasi, 29(1): 1-12. www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Blackburn, D. C., Gray, J. A., & Stanley, E. L. (2024). The only "lungless" frog has a glottis and lungs. Current biology: CB, 34(10), R492-R493. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.03...
Quaglia, S. (2024). World’s only lungless frog species actually does have lungs after all. NewScientist. www.newscientist.com/article/...
Outro
Bubbles Drifting in the Morning Breeze - Artificial.Music & Akosmo
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Thumbnail photograph by David P. Bickford in Rachmayuningtyas et al., 2011 (check the reference section)

[@Davidpluh]

🗣️ Indonesia mentioned🔥🔥🔥
Anyways good video like always.

[@tiagox3275]

This cannel is such a gem. Glad to have found it!

[@ayambakarstudio9940]

very intriguing, but may i also introduce an SSR ssake from our humble land. the Xenodermus Javanicus (a real life dragon serpent)

[@jenniferofholliston5426]

What a strange animal!

[@tuanahmadkurniaillahi6864]

Yay, new video~
terimakasih karena selalu mengupload video yang menarik !!
we also need more meme wkwk

[@jadilzoca4971]

please consider doing a video on the Cunningham's skink (Egernia cunninghami) its one of my favourites lizards and they have a very interesting social behavior

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Theyr'e on the same island as i am??!!!

[@ajjo_art]

5:37 thank you for the rememberin

[@davidbarkin8269]

I love it when so calleed scientists "colect" endangered species. I remember one Ornithologist who "collected 23 Wood Storks on Long island, and then wrote, "They've never been seen here again, I collected the last of them."