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| image = Sphaerotheca dobsonii-Mollem.jpg<br />
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| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Sushil Dutta, Anand Padhye, Robert Inger |date=2004 |title=''Sphaerotheca dobsonii'' |volume=2004 |article-number=e.T58756A11837892 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58756A11837892.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref><br />
| taxon = Sphaerotheca dobsonii<br />
| authority = ([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]],1882)<br />
| synonyms = ''Rana dobsonii'' <small>Boulenger, 1882</small><br /><br />
''Tomopterna dobsonii'' <small>(Boulenger, 1882)</small><br />
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'''''Sphaerotheca dobsonii''''' (common names: '''Mangalore bullfrog''', '''Dobson's burrowing frog''') is a species of [[frog]] capable of burrowing. It is found in southern [[India]].<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /><ref name=frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Dicroglossidae/Dicroglossinae/Sphaerotheca/Sphaerotheca-dobsonii |title=''Sphaerotheca dobsonii'' (Boulenger, 1882) |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2014 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=2 March 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Description==<br />
[[File:Sphaerotheca dobsonii Dobsons burrowing frog Mangalore bullfrog by Vijayanrajapuram 07.jpg|left|thumb|At [[Madikai]], in Kerala]]<br />
The vomerine teeth occur in two oblique series between the choanae. It is stout, with a large head, a short, rounded snout, with an obtuse canthus rostralis; the interorbital space is narrower than the upper eyelid; the tympanum is very distinct, three-fourths of the diameter of the eye. The fingers are moderate and obtuse, with the first much longer than the second, as long as third; the toes are webbed at the base and moderate; the subarticular tubercles are large; the inner metatarsal tubercle is very large, sharp-edged, shovel-shaped, and longer than the inner toe; no outer tubercle or tarsal fold is present. The tibiotarsal articulation reaches the shoulder or the tympanum. The skin is smooth above, and granular on the belly and under the thighs; a fold runs from the eye to the shoulder. Grayish or purplish above, it is indistinctly marbled with brown, sometimes with a fine, light vertebral line; a deep black streak runs from the end of the snout, through the nostril and the eye, to the shoulder, expanding in a round spot on the tympanum; the thighs are black above, whitishly marbled; the beneath is yellowish, and the throat is brown-spotted.<br />
It ranges in length from 2–3 in, snout to vent.<ref>Boulenger, G. A. (1890) Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.</ref><br />
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It is found in Mangalore and South Canara.<br />
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[[Category:Amphibians described in 1882]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger]]<br />
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