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Meowing Night Frog
Plate 1 of 5. (c) Daniel V Raju, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Daniel V Raju · via iNaturalist
IUCN NT · Near threatened

Meowing Night Frog

Nyctibatrachus poocha

Nyctibatrachus poocha (also known as the meowing night frog because of its distinct cat-like call) is one of 12 species of frogs in the Nyctibatrachus genus discovered in September 2011. It is found exclusively in the Western Ghats, India. The team, composed of researchers from the Bombay Natural History Society, Zoological Survey of India and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, led by herpetologist Sathyabhama Das Biju of the University of Delhi, used morphological traits and molecular markers to...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 134758.