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| status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{Cite iucn | author = Biju, S.D. | author2 = Dutta, S. | author3 = Bhatta, G. | author4 = Adoor, S. | title = ''Micrixalus saxicola'' | volume = 2009 | page = e.T58384A11764402 | date = 2009 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58384A11764402.en }}</ref><br />
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| taxon = Micrixalus saxicola<br />
| authority = ([[Thomas C. Jerdon|Jerdon]], 1854)<br />
| synonyms = {{species list<br />
| Polypedates saxicola | Jerdon, 1853<br />
| Ixalus saxicola | (Jerdon, 1853)<br />
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'''''Micrixalus saxicola''''' ('''black torrent frog''', '''Malabar tropical frog''', '''Jerdon's olive-brown frog''', '''small torrent frog''') is a species of [[frog]] in the family [[Micrixalidae]], found in forest streams in the [[Western Ghats]] of India.<ref name=IUCN/><ref name=Frost/><br />
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==Description==<br />
«Tongue with a free, pointed papilla in the anterior part of the median line. Snout subacuminate, as long as the diameter of the orbit; ''canthus rostralis'' angular; loreal region flat, vertical; nostril equally distant from the eye and the tip of the snout; interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid; tympanum small, hidden. Toes very broadly webbed, the web reaching the disks, which are very large; subarticular tubercles small; a small inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being stretched forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout or somewhat beyond. Skin smooth above and beneath: a fold from the eye to the shoulder. Olive-brown above, with more or less distinct darker reticulations; limbs with dark cross bands; throat and breast often marbled with brown. Male with internal vocal sacs, the openings of which are very small.»<ref>Boulenger, G. A. (1890) [https://archive.org/stream/reptiliabatrachi00bouliala#page/465/mode/1up/ Fauna of British India: Reptilia and batrachia]. p. 465.</ref><br />
*From snout to vent 1-2 inches.<br />
*Habitat: Malabar and Wynaad; on rocks in shady mountain-streams.<br />
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<ref name=Frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/index.php//Amphibia/Anura/Micrixalidae/Micrixalus/Micrixalus-saxicola |title=''Micrixalus saxicola'' (Jerdon, 1854) |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2017 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |accessdate=6 January 2018}}</ref><br />
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