Leptobrachella pelodytoides, with common names including the Thao Asian toad, Myanmar litter toad, and Karin toadfrog, among others, is a frog species in the family Megophryidae. It occurs near its type locality in the Karen Hills region in the Kayah State, eastern Myanmar, as well as the southern Yunnan province of China and in several regions of Thailand.
As Leptobrachella pelodytoides was one of the first megophryid species to be described from the region, later research has shown that many specimens that have been reported as L. pelodytoides represent other species, including Leptobrachella bourreti, Leptobrachella oshanensis, Leptobrachella eos, and Leptobrachella minima.
Description Leptobrachella pelodytoides is large for its genus: males measure and females in snout-vent length. Their back is brown with indistinct darker outline on warts and foldings and sides are with large dark blackish spots.
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