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Duttaphrynus microtympanum

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Duttaphrynus microtympanum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Duttaphrynus
Species:
D. microtympanum
Binomial name
Duttaphrynus microtympanum
(Boulenger, 1882)
Synonyms

Bufo microtympanum Boulenger, 1882

Duttaphrynus microtympanum (common names: southern hill toad, small-eared toad) is a species of toad found in the Western Ghats of India, possibly wider.[2]

Description

Head with prominent bony ridges, viz. a canthal, a pre-orbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, and a short orbito-tympanic; snout short, blunt; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum very small, not half the diameter of eye, generally indistinct. First finger extending beyond second; toes about half webbed, with single subarticular tubercles; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The tarsometatarsal articulation reaches the eye, or between the eye and the tip of the snout. Upper surfaces with irregular, distinctly porous warts; parotoids prominent, elliptical, twice or twice and a half as long as broad. Brown above; yellow beneath, marbled with brown. Male with a subgular vocal sac.

From snout to vent 3 inches.[3]

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN2014.1
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Duttaphrynus microtympanum (Boulenger, 1882)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  3. ^ Boulenger, G. A. (1890) Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia