The way I recognized the frog species is as follows:



(1) I grew-up in a country that has them in the wild (Malaysia, and have observed similar sized and coloured specimens,



(2) I currently keep a similar looking specimen (both in size and colour), and it too was relatively small when I obtained it,



and finally,

(3) the head to body ratio matches the both the specimens I have seen in the wild, as well as my captive specimen (relatively large head).



I am relatively new to identifying New World species, and your comment about it not looking like a Spring Peeper confirmed my hypothesis that it was not one (from the photographs I have seen, Peepers have a different head/body ratio).

Your observation of the X-marking is interesting, because some controversy exists in this regard: both Polypedates Leucomastyx and Polypedates Colletti are sometimes found with these markings. www.frogweb.com has good pictorial descriptions of both species, but I believe the site is down for maintainence and will be re-opening in July. I hope my comments have been helpful on this forum, as I am new to it. Cheers.

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