Indirana brachytarsus

The frog lays eggs on wet rocks. This frog's tadpoles are semi-aquatic and move across wet rocks and moss using their tails and their hind legs, which grow in at a younger age than those of tadpoles of other species.^[1]

The IUCN classifies this frog as least concern of extinction, but it is in some danger from deforestation associated with agriculture, dam construction, and other infrastructure. Some landslide prevention efforts can harm this frog: the concrete people use to strengthen roads can fill in the cracks in the rocks where frogs would lay their eggs. Subsistence wood harvesting may also pose some threat, but only a minor one.^[1]

Scientists also cite climate change as a threat. Because the frog lives at high elevations, it cannot readily migrate to cooler habitats.^[1]

Scientists have observed the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on this frog, but they do not know its specific morbidity or mortality. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis causes the fungal disease chytridiomycosis.^[1]