Fungoid frog

[1][2][3] Although restricted in range within peninsular India, they are of least conservation concern.

[1] Their upper parts vary in colour from brownish-red to bright crimson.

Vomerine teeth in two oval oblique groups between the choanae.

Head moderate, depressed; snout moderate, hardly as long as the diameter of the orbit, subacuminate, moderately prominent; loreal region concave; nostril nearer to the end of the snout than to the eye; interorbital space rather narrower than the upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, nearly as large as the eye.

fingers moderate, first extending beyond second; toes rather short, half webbed : tips of fingers and toes swollen; subarticular tubercles very strong; inner metatarsal tubercle oval, blunt; a large rounded tubercle at the base of the fourth toe; no tarsal fold.

The Fungoid Frog at Ezhimala, North Malabar, Kerala