Cute little elusive Indian leaf litter livin' froggy.
The India’s smallest land vertebrate, a 10-millimeter frog, has been discovered from the Western Ghats of Kerala by Delhi University Systematics Biologist, S D Biju and his colleagues.Indian land vertebrates (all animals with backbone except fishes), comprises of 2,400 species including 218 frog species.
S D Biju and his colleagues discovered the tiny night frog living under leaf litter and among the roots of ferns in the humid rainforest of the Western Ghats of Kerala, a mountainous region in the western portion of India. Biju gave a new name for the frog, Nyctibatrachus minimus.
Awesome. Now that we know it exists, it can go extinct. Think about it.
Posted by: Zen | October 03, 2007 at 09:34 PM
Sounds like a Frog and Toad story. Hi, Mr. Toad. Morning Froggy.
Posted by: Hard Pressed | October 04, 2007 at 09:17 AM
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