The Asian Common Toad.....

Topic 1 More about the pet 

The tadpoles that we have here is known to be the larvae stage of Duttaphrynus melanostictus. Commonly called Asian common toad, Asian toad, black-spectacled toad, common Sunda toad and Javanese toad. It is probably a complex of more than one toad species that is widely distributed in South and Southeast Asia.

     

Duttaphrynus melanostictus tadpole 

In this stage they are eating machines. They don’t have limbs, so they can’t walk but can swim. They don’t call although they can hear and they can’t breed. Basically, they eat, and they do it a lot. Approximately half of their biomass is intestine! Indeed, a tadpole’s primary ecological reason of existence is to get the individual organism that it represents from embryo to terrestrial adult. In doing so, it take advantage of the abundant aquatic food resources. 

The anatomy of the tadpole can be divided into two section, that is the head and the tail, the head houses the organs where else tail section is used to swim in the water. The video bellow shows how the tadpoles we have swim. 

the tail moves left and right rapidly to give propulsion for the tadpole to move around, when not in motion the tail does not move as well.