Melanobatrachus indicus
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Melanobatrachus indicus is an amphibian species of the family of mouthed . It is the only species of the genus Melanobatrachus and the subfamily Melanobatrachinae .
description
The species reaches a length of 31 millimeters. The top is bumpy, the flanks and the bottom are smooth. The basic color is black, the bumps on the back are gray. The belly is dotted with gray. There is a large, scarlet-colored spot on the front and bottom of the thighs. The forehead is short and blunt. The canthus rostralis is rather indistinct. The interorbital space is wider than an upper eyelid. The pupils are vertical. The tongue is elliptical, with entire margins and freely liftable at the back. Teeth and folds of the palate are missing. Fingers and toes are short and flattened. The fingers are free, the toes are to a third of its length by webbed connected. The webbed feet do not intervene between the metatarsi of the 4th and 5th toes. The tips of the fingers and toes are not enlarged and have simple, bony terminal phalanges. The first finger is much shorter than the second. Subarticular and metatarsal cusps are very indistinct. The tarsometatarsal joint extends in front of the eye when the hind leg is laid forward to the body. The precoracoid are very weak and run almost parallel to the coracoid . The omosternum (front part of the sternum) is missing. The sternum is cartilaginous. The transverse processes of the sacral vertebra are moderately widened. Males have a subgurale vocal sac .
Occurrence
The species occurs in southern India in Kerala and Tamil Nadu south of 13 ° north latitude. It inhabits moist, evergreen forests in the Western Ghats at altitudes of 1000 to 1500 meters.
Systematics
The species Melanobatrachus indicus was first described by Richard Henry Beddome in 1878 . It is the only species of the genus Melanobatrachus Beddome, 1878 and the subfamily Melanobatrachinae Noble, 1931.
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Nieden: Anura II . In: FE Schulze, W. Kükenthal, K. Heider (Ed.): Das Tierreich . Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin and Leipzig 1926, pp. 18-19.
- ↑ a b Darrel R. Frost: Melanobatrachus indicus Beddome, 1878 . In: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference . Version 6.0 (accessed February 22, 2014). ( online ).
Web links
- Melanobatrachus indicus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: SD Biju, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Gajanan Dasaramji Bhuddhe, Sushil Dutta, Chelmala Srinivasulu, SP Vijayakumar, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2014.