Purple Frog
Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis
Amphibia
NEAR THREATENED
Stats
- Lifespan
- Unknown
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- South Asia
- Movement
- Burrowing
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Burrowing
- Status
- Near Threatened
About
The Purple Frog, also known as the Indian purple frog, the Mahabali frog, and the pignose frog, is a frog species in the family Nasikabatrachidae. Although the adult frog was formally described in October 2003, the juvenile form of the species had been described earlier in 1917.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA jelly-coated egg is laid in water and develops over days into an aquatic larva.
- 2.tadpoleA gilled tadpole swims and grazes on algae, slowly absorbing its tail and growing limbs.
- 3.juvenileA near-adult amphibian leaves the water with new legs and lungs, smaller than the mature form.
- 4.adultFully grown at adult size, breathing air.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Nasikabatrachidae
- Genus
- Nasikabatrachus
- Species
- Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis