5 Different Species Of Frogs Found In India

The Western Ghats of India hosts a rich diversity of rare frog species, everyday or another a new species of frog discovered in the Western Ghats of South India. India’s richest biodiversity hotspots is not only home to endemic frog families but also host several endemic reptiles including lizards and snakes.

* Purple Frog

Purple Frog or Indian purple frog is native to the Western Ghats and restricted to the Palghat Gap, some portions of the Agasthyamalai Hill and Vellarimala mountain range in Kerala. The endangered and endemic frog only come to surfaces during the monsoon for mating and spends most of its life underground.

* Bicolored Frog

Bicolored frog also known as Malabar frog are distinctive enough to recognize with two layer patterns and endemic to the Western Ghats, around slow moving streams but unfortunately collected for local consumption.

* Fungoid Frog

Fungoid frog or Malabar Hills frog is a colourful frog, from from Bombay to Kerala in the Western Ghats and mostly distributed in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa with overlap range of widespread fungoid frog.

* Dancing Frog

Dancing Frogs or Micrixalus genus of frogs have been recently discovered in the jungles of western ghats. Micrixalus are popularly known as dancing frogs to attract females and only found around slow moving streams and
high altitude shola forest.

* Shrub Frog

Resplendent shrubfrog is one of the critically endangered species of frogs,endemic to the high altitude of Western Ghats in Kerala, found in Eravikulam National Park and the Anamudi summit.