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Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis
Bizzare shaped, purple-brown in colour, with a bony nose, toe-nails, paddle. Female three times larger than the male.
Rainforest
This unique and bizarre looking frog, lives underground most of the year. It appears above ground only for mating during the pre-monsoon season. They probably know something about the weather that we don't.
Spotted on May 29, 2013
Submitted on May 30, 2013
1 Comment
Fantastic find !! A really special frog identified only 10 years ago. "The frog's reclusive lifestyle is what caused the adults to escape earlier notice by biologists, and hence delay its scientific description. A female specimen was found nearly 8 metres below the ground level. " - wikipedia Well done and thanks.