What is Kurixalus motokawai?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status =VU | status_ref =<ref name=IUCN/> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Kurixalus motokawai | authority = Nguyen, Matsui & Eto, 2014 | range_map = |synonyms= | synonyms_ref=<ref name=AMNH /> }} The '''Kon Tum frilled tree frog''' (''Kurixalus motokawai'') is a [[frog]]. It lives in [[Vietnam]] in the [[Annamite Mountains]].<ref name=AMNH>{{BioRef|ASW6 |title=''Kurixalus motokawai'' (Günther, 1858) |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Kurixalus/Kurixalus-motokawai |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{BioRef|amphibiaweb |title=''Kurixalus motokawai'' Nguyen, Matsui, and Eto, 2014 |author1= |editor1= |editor2= |date= |language= |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/8276 |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref> People have seen it between 1050 and 1400 meters above sea level.<ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |title= Kon Tum Frilled Treefrog: ''Kurixalus motokawai'' |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/73727108/73727112 |page=e.T73727108A73727112 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T73727108A73727112.en |id=73727108 |year=2021 |author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |accessdate=March 25, 2024}}</ref> The skin of the frog's back is brown in color with darker brown marks. Scientists studied the frog's DNA and say it is most like ''[[Kurixalus banaensis]]'' and ''[[Kurixalus viridescens]]''<ref name=Des>{{cite journal|author1=Nguyen TT|author2= Masafumi M|author3= KZoshiro E |year=2014 |title=A new cryptic tree frog species allied to Kurixalus banaensis (Anura: Rhacophoridae)from Vietnam. |journal=Russian J Herpetol |volume=21 |pages=295-302|url=http://rjh.folium.ru/index.php/rjh/article/view/917|accessdate=March 25, 2024|type=Abstract}}</ref> This frog lives in evergreen forests and places with smaller plants on tall hills. It sits on plants .5 to 1 meter above the ground. It can live in places that human beings have changed. Scientists think it might lay eggs in holes in trees that have water in them, like ot