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Staurois guttatus
Basic stats
Diet
Invertebrates
Habitat
Wet rocks beside fast-flowing streams and waterfalls
Range
Borneo
Clutch size
Several dozen eggs (typical for Staurois)
Incubation period
About 1–2 weeks to hatching (typical for Staurois)
Size
Small (25–35mm)
Weight
~4–8g
A rock frog closely related to the rock skipper frog, marked with black spotting, and sharing the genus's notable foot-flagging visual signalling behaviour near noisy waterfalls.
Found on wet rocks beside fast-flowing streams and waterfalls, feeding on invertebrates in this specialised torrent habitat.
