UpdateBot: robot: Update article (please report if you notice any mistake or error in this edit)

2021-11-19T16:33:39Z

robot: Update article (please report if you notice any mistake or error in this edit)

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:03, 19 November 2021
Line 26:		Line 26:
	[[Category:Frogs of India]]		[[Category:Frogs of India]]
	[[Category:Amphibians described in 1882]]		[[Category:Amphibians described in 1882]]
			[[Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN]] <!-- Walkerana leptodactyla -->


	{{amphibian-stub}}		{{amphibian-stub}}

imported>ShortDescBot: ShortDescBot adding short description "Species of amphibian"

2021-02-26T04:21:17Z

ShortDescBot adding short description "Species of amphibian"

New page

{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2020}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = EN
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{Cite iucn | author = S.D. Biju | author2 = Sushil Dutta | title = ''Indirana leptodactyla'' | volume = 2004 | page = e.T58312A11763407 | date = 2004 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58312A11763407.en }}</ref>
| taxon = Walkerana leptodactyla
| authority = ([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1882)
| synonyms = ''Indirana leptodactyla'' <small>(Boulenger, 1882)</small>
}}

'''''Walkerana leptodactyla''''' is a species of [[frog]] [[endemic]] to the southern [[Western Ghats]] in [[Kerala]] and [[Tamil Nadu]] states of southern India. Precise reports are from [[Anaimalai hills]], [[Palni hills]], [[Meghamalai]], [[Travancore]] hills and [[Agasthyamalai]].<ref name=frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Ranixalidae/Indirana/Indirana-leptodactyla |title=''Indirana leptodactyla'' (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 |accessdate=1 June 2014}}</ref> It is a terrestrial to semi-aquatic frog associated with the leaf-litter of high-elevation evergreen montane forest; it is not known from modified habitats. It is uncommon and believed to be declining in abundance.<ref name=IUCN/>

==Description==
Vomerine teeth in two oblique groups just behind the level of the choanae. A free, pointed papilla on the middle of the tongue. Head moderate, rather depressed; snout blunt, with moderate canthus rostralis; interorbital space as broad as, or a little narrower than, the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, half the diameter of the eye. lingers moderate, first not extending as far as second; toes one-third or one-fourth webbed; tips of fingers and toes dilated into small but well-developed disks; subarticular tubercles well developed; a small, oval, inner metatarsal tubercle; no tarsal fold. Tibio-tarsal articulation reaching the tip of the snout or beyond. Skin of the back with short longitudinal glandular folds; a fold from the eye to the shoulder. Olive or brownish above, mottled with darker; a more or less distinct subtriangular dark spot between the eyes, often limited in front by a light cross band; sometimes a light vertebral band; a black band along the canthus rostralis, and a black temporal spot; limbs cross-barred; beneath, immaculate or spotted with brown, sometimes brown dotted with white.
From snout to vent 1.3 inches.<ref>Boulenger, G. A. (1890) Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia</ref>

==References==
<references/>

{{Taxonbar|from=Q3150487}}

[[Category:Walkerana|leptodactyla]]
[[Category:Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats]]
[[Category:Frogs of India]]
[[Category:Amphibians described in 1882]]

{{amphibian-stub}}

Walkerana leptodactyla - Revision history

UpdateBot: robot: Update article (please report if you notice any mistake or error in this edit)

imported>ShortDescBot: ShortDescBot adding short description "Species of amphibian"