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The Common Indian Tree Frog (Polypedates maculatus) is a common species of tree frog found in South Asia. They are mostly whitish or greyish. They often have day roosts that they regularly use. They have a call that resembles sudden short and rapid set of rat-tat calls.[1]
[edit] Description
Vomerine teeth in two more or less oblique series between the choanae or commencing close to the inner front edge o£ the latter. Skin of head free; a more or less developed bony arch, sometimes slender and partly ligamentous, sometimes very thick and swollen, extending on each side from the posterior border of the frontoparietal bones to the squamosals; snout obtusely acuminate, about as long as the diameter of the orbit; canthus rostralis distinct; loreal region concave; nostril much nearer to the end of the snout than to the eye; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum about three fourths the diameter of the eye. Fingers with a slight rudiment of web; toes two-thirds webbed; disks moderate, that of the third finger measuring two fifths to one half the diameter of the eye; subarticular tubercles moderate. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the eye, or between the eye and the tip of the snout. Skin smooth above, granulate on the belly and under the thighs; a fold from the eye to the shoulder. Brownish, yellowish, greyish, or whitish above, with darker spots or markings;rarely with an hourglass-shaped figure on the back of the head and the front of the back; loreal and temporal regions dark; a light line on the upper lip; hinder side of thighs with round yellow spots, which are usually separated by a dark brown or purplish network. Male with internal vocal sacs. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ KANAMADI, R. D., Η SCHNEIDER, C R HIREMATH and C S JIRANKALI (1993) Vocalization of the tree frog Polypedates maculatus (Rhacophoridae) J. Biosci. 18(2):239-245 [1]
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.
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