Walkerana phrynoderma is a species of frog endemic to the Anaimalai Hills, of the Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamil nadu states in southern India.

[2] It is a very rare terrestrial frog species associated with leaf-litter in tropical moist forest.

Instead, they move across wet rocks and moss using their tails and their back legs, which grow in at a younger age than those of other tadpoles.

Pesticide runoff from nearby farms also poses some threat, as does habitat loss associated with road and infrastructure construction.

Scientists consider climate change a possible threat to this frog through alteration of the monsoon weather patterns that it needs to breed.