Pedostibes tuberculosus
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| Malabar Tree Toad | ||||||||||||||
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| Pedostibes tuberculosus Günther, 1876 |
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Nectophryne tuberculosus |
The Malabar Tree Toad (Pedostibes tuberculosus) is a species of toad found in forests along the Western Ghats of India south of Goa. It is small and is found in wet tree hollows or leaf bases containing water.
[edit] Description
Habit moderately slender. Head moderate; snout sub-acuminate, loreal region vertical; inter-orbital space as broad as the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, one third the width of the eye. Fingers moderate, depressed, webbed at the base, first half the length of second; toes moderate, nearly entirely webbed; tips of fingers and toes dilated into broad truncated disks, those of toes rather smaller than those of fingers; sub-articular tubercles small; two small, flat metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the metatarsal tubercles reach to between the eye and tip of the snout. Skin of upper parts tubercular, the largest tubercles being arranged along each side of the back. Brownish grey above, sides darker; a white band from below the eye to the axil; another white longitudinal band in the lumbar region; beneath dark-spotted. Male with a subgular vocal sac.[1]
The call is described as a shirrrr shirr shirr shirr with a dominant frequency of 3780 Hz, each call lasting 3 to 7 seconds with 3 to 10 pulses.[2]
From snout to vent 1.4 inches.
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