Bhadra Leaping Frog
Indirana bhadrai Garg & Biju, 2016
First described in: Garg, Sonali & S. D. Biju. 2016. Molecular and morphological study of Leaping frogs (Anura, Ranixalidae) with description of two new species. Public Library of Science, ONE.
Indirana bhadrai, the Bhadra leaping frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranixalidae. It is endemic to India's Western Ghat mountains, north of the Palged Gap.
The adult male frog averages 30.2 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 38.7 mm. The skin of the dorsum is light brown in color with darker brown marks. There is a gray-brown mark between the eyes. The snout is lighter in color than the back. There is a black-brown mark from the tip of the nose to the eye to the armpit. The tympanum is gray-brown in color. All four legs and the sides of the body are yellow-brown in color. The belly is light gray with dark gray spots.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
biology_ecology
Natural history. Adults and tadpoles (Fig. 2 C, D) were encountered on rocky mountainous slopes containing a thin film (<2 mm) of water streaming over them, in areas locally called Attigundi and Basignamutt (Fig. 2 G). We observed abundant algal growth on these slopes, and the tadpoles were seen feeding on them. Ambient temperature and relative humidity of the site in Attigundi were measured at 19 ° C and 98 %, respectively. The water flowing over the rock formation had a temperature of 19.9 ° C, pH 5.12, contained 0.02 ppt of total dissolved solids and a water conductivity of 0.07 mS. Tadpoles were largely found on the open rocks than the regions on the rock with plant growth. Cement structure constructed adjacent to the rocky slopes, resembling the latter in algal abundance and water flow also had tadpoles of I. bhadrai (Fig. 2 E). Newly hatched tadpoles lacked hind limbs but were seen moving actively across the rock with the help of their proportionately long muscular tail and some of them were found wriggling on the roadsides. The older tadpoles with completely developed hind limbs were also seen crawling actively but leapt and fled when disturbed. Egg clutches (three) were loc
Larval descriptions and natural history of two endemic frogs (Amphibia: Anura) from the Western Ghats, India
description
External morphology. Specimen numbers: BNHS 6809 – 6812. External larval morphology is described based on four specimens at Gosner Stages 36 – 38 (Table 1; Fig. 2 A). Small-sized, semiterrestrial tadpoles (TaL 15.4 – 16.1 mm), body oval, longer than wide (BL / BW 1.9). In the lateral view, body depressed (BW / BH 1.3). Eyes positioned dorsally, directed dorso-laterally. Nares closer to eyes than snout (NSD / END 1.7). Inter-Narial Distance smaller than Inter-Orbital Distance (1.1). Snout declivous in dorsal view. Spiracle sinistral and lacking inner wall. Coiled gut visible from the ventral view. Tail length twice as long as body length (TL / BL 1.6). Tail thin, cylindrical, and tapering muscular structure with rudimentary dorsal and ventral fins beginning at the posterior most quarter of the tail muscle. Vent tube medial and short. Oral disc (Fig. 2 B) relatively small (BW / ODW 2.6), ventrally situated and not emarginated. Upper labium inverted ‘ V’ shaped. Labial tooth row formula (LTRF) 4 (1 – 4) / 4 (1 – 2). Row P 1 shorter than other posterior tooth rows, with a large medial gap. Jaw sheaths strongly compressed transversely, keratinised and well-serrated. Marginal papillae pr
Larval descriptions and natural history of two endemic frogs (Amphibia: Anura) from the Western Ghats, India
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9596672.