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Buergeria choui
Rare visitor: recorded only occasionally in this country
Buergeria choui (Buergeria choui) is the proposed Yaeyama Kajika Frog, described in 2020 after being separated from Buergeria japonica. Identification should combine body shape, skin texture, colour pattern, toe structure and locality because related frogs can be extremely similar. Claims are limited to the species accounts opened for this batch (Wikipedia, general species account). Field identification should remain cautious when diagnostic measurements or clear photographs are unavailable.
It occurs in north-western Taiwan and the southern Ryukyu Archipelago, specifically Japan's Yaeyama Islands, and honours Taiwanese zoologist Wen-Hao Chou. Information absent from those species-level sources is omitted rather than borrowed from relatives. Japanese occurrence follows the site's catalogue and the opened distribution account, without using IUCN conservation material (Wikipedia, general species account; Wildlife of Japan occurrence records). This wording keeps gaps in the available species evidence explicit rather than concealing them.