Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis
Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis is a news of Grenouille discovered in 2003 in the west of the area of the Ghats in India. This new species required the creation of a news family of Anoure S, which had not arrived since 1926.
The scientific name of the kind comes from the Sanskrit nasika (nose) to refer to its pointed muzzle and from the Greek batrachus (frog). The name of the species comes from the name of the mountain where the animal was found, Sahyadri .
The frog spends practically all the year hidden in the ground and leaves ground only during the Mousson, lasting approximately two weeks, in order to reproduce. Perhaps this very discrete lifestyle explains why the animal was discovered only very recently.
The animal is dark crimson (from where its English name, purple frog ), measurement seven centimetres length, has a small head and a pointed muzzle.
The species was discovered by the Belgian Franky Bossuyt of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and by Sathyabhama Das Biju of the Research institute and the botanical garden of Palode (India). Of course, the animal was already known by the local populations.
According to genetic analyzes, it would be close to the family of the Sooglossidae which is with the Seychelles. The two families would have separated approximately 100 million years ago, when India, Seychelles and Madagascar formed one unit.
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