Limnonectes shompenorum
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| Limnonectes shompenorum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dicroglossidae |
| Genus: | Limnonectes |
| Species: | L. shompenorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Limnonectes shompenorum Das, 1996 | |
Limnonectes shompenorum (common name: Shompen frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in Great Nicobar Island (India), its type locality, and in western Sumatra (Indonesia). It is similar to Limnonectes macrodon.[2] The name refers to Shompen people, the indigenous people of the interior of Great Nicobar Island.[3]
Limnonectes shompenorum is a relatively large, robust frog. Adult females measure 72–88 mm (2.8–3.5 in) in snout–vent length.[3][4] A male measured 84 mm (3.3 in) in snout–vent length.[4]
Limnonectes shompenorum can be distinguished from its closest relatives by the following suite of characters:[3]
"(1) head narrower than body, and longer than broad; (2) interorbital distance greater than the upper eyelid width; (3) fingers with movable dermal fringe; (4) tips of fingers weakly swollen; (5) finger 4 longer than finger 2; (6) toes completely webbed; (7) dark horizontal loreal stripe; and (8) partially pigmented eggs."