Zakerana brevipalmata

Zakerana brevipalmata (common names: short-webbed frog, Peters' frog, and Pegu wart frog) is a species of frog found in the Western Ghats in southern India (Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala states).[2] Zakerana brevipalmata is a little-known and uncommon grassland frog associated with waterlogged or marshy areas, but it has also been recorded from suitable wet patches of forest and lightly degraded former forest.[1]

Zakerana brevipalmata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Genus: Zakerana
Species:
Z. brevipalmata
Binomial name
Zakerana brevipalmata
(Peters, 1871)
Range of Z. brevipalmata
Synonyms

Rana brevipalmata Peters, 1871
Limnonectes brevipalmatus (Peters, 1871)
Fejervarya brevipalmata (Peters, 1871)

References

  1. Biju, S.D. & Dutta, S. (2009). "Zakerana brevipalmata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Zakerana brevipalmata (Peters, 1871)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 14 February 2014.


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