The frog, Indirana Salelkari is named after state ranger forest officer Prakash Salelkar.
A new species of frog has been discovered in India’s Netravali forest sanctuary in South Goa in West India.
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The frog, Indirana Salelkari, and named after state ranger forest officer Prakash Salelkar is a leaping frog that was discovered in the Tanshikar Spice Farm at Netravali (Neturlim) in the town of Sanguem Taluk.
The frog, which is morphologically and genetically different from other species of the genus, is brown in coloration with a light colored belly and a black stripe that begins at its nose and ends behind its tympanum. It lives in riparian habitats with sub adults found under leaf litter. Males measure around 27.7mm in length while females measure slightly larger at 30.2mm in length.
India has become a hot bed for new species discoveries in the last couple of years. More than 25 new frog species were discovered in the country in 2014 alone, proving that India is a biological hotspot.
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