🐸Purple Frog
The purple frog, also known commonly as the Indian purple frog, the Mahabali frog, and the pignose frog, is a frog species in the family Nasikabatrachidae. The species is endemic to the Western Ghats in India. Although the adult frog was formally described in October 2003, the juvenile form of the species had been described earlier in 1917.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.09 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Purple Frog
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.09 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
DietarthropodsAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Not recorded for Purple Frog yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderAnura
- ›familyNasikabatrachidae
- ›genusNasikabatrachus
- ›speciesNasikabatrachus sahyadrensis
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- familyNasikabatrachidae
- genusNasikabatrachus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- suborderNeobatrachia
- superfamilySooglossoidea
- familyNasikabatrachidae
- genusNasikabatrachus
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