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| name = Indian toad<br />
| status = NT <br />
| status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref>{{Cite iucn | author = Biju, S.D. | author2 = Dutta, S. | author3 = Vasudevan, K. | author4 = Vijayakumar, S.P. | author5 = Srinivasulu, C. | author6 = Bhuddhe, G.D. | title = ''Duttaphrynus parietalis'' | volume = 2004 | page = e.T54725A11194867 | date = 2004 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T54725A11194867.en | access-date = 9 January 2018}} Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is near threatened</ref><br />
| image = Bufo parietalis side.jpg<br />
| image2= BufoParietalis1.jpg<br />
| taxon = Duttaphrynus parietalis<br />
| authority = ([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1882)<br />
| range_map = Duttaphrynus parietalis map-fr.svg<br />
| synonyms = * ''Bufo parietalis'' ([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1882)<br />
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'''''Duttaphrynus parietalis''''', commonly known as the '''Indian toad''' or '''ridged toad''', is a species of [[toad]] found in the [[Western Ghats]] of India.<ref>Krishna, S. N. Krishna, S. B. 2001. On the natural history of ''Bufo parietalis'' Boulenger, 1882, Amphibia: Family Bufonidae. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 98(3):456</ref><br />
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==Description==<br />
[[File:Bufo parietalis amplexus.jpg|thumb|200px|left]]<br />
Head with very prominent ridges, namely a canthal, a slight preorbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, a parietal, and an orbitotympanic; parietal ridges obliquely directed inwards; snout short, blunt; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, two thirds the diameter of the eye. First finger extending beyond second; toes half webbed, with single subarticular tubercles; two moderate metatarsal tubercles; no tarsal fold. The tarsometatarsal articulation reaches between the eye and the tip of the snout. Upper surfaces covered with irregular warts; parotoids moderately elongate, elliptical, very prominent. Uniform brown above; beneath marbled with brown. Male with a subgular [[vocal sac]].<ref>Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.</ref><br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/54725/0 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: ''Bufo parietalis''] (as ''Duttaphrynus parietalis'')<br />
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[[Category:Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats]]<br />
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[[Category:Amphibians described in 1882]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger]]<br />
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