Indian Purple Frog — printable fact sheet
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Indian Purple Frog
Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis
Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis was described only in 2003, from India's Western Ghats, and it caused a stir out of all proportion to its size, because it is not merely a new species but the sole surviving representative of a lineage whose closest relatives are the Sooglossidae of …
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- The Indian Purple Frog was only formally described by scientists in 2003, despite being evolutionarily ancient and existing for millions of years.
- The frog was known to local people long before science described it - Kerala communities recognised it and in some places ate it - which is a recurring pattern in "new" species discoveries. Adults call from underground, and the sound carries up through the soil, so males advertise from inside their burrows. Its 100-million-year isolation makes it one of the highest-ranked amphibians on the EDGE list of evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered species.
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