Walkerana muduga
| Walkerana muduga | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Genus: | Walkerana |
| Species: | W. muduga
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| Binomial name | |
| Walkerana muduga Dinesh, Vijayakumar, Ramesh, Jayarajan, Chandramouli, and Shanker, 2020
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The Muduga mountain leaping frog (Buergeria muduga) is a frog. It lives in India in the Elivalmalai mountains.[2][3][1]
People have seen this frog in grassy places and wet places. Scientists think it might live on big farms too but they have not seen it there yet, as of 2023. So far, people have only seen it in one forest, between 800 and 1900 meters above sea level.[1]
Scientists think this frog's tadpoles do not live in the water and instead move across wet rocks and moss using their tails and their back legs. Their back legs grow on them sooner than other tadpoles' back legs.[1]
Scientists do not know if this frog is in danger of dying out. They think visitors to the area could hurt this frog. Scientists also think climate change could hurt this frog. Because it lives high in mountains, the frog cannot move north when the weather gets hotter the way other animals could.[1]
Scientists think the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis can also make this frog sick. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis causes the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. They think this because they have seen B. dendrobatidis on other species of frogs in the same family.[1]
First paper[change | change source]
- Dinesh KP; SP Vijayakumar; V Ramesh; A Jayarajan; SR Chandramouli; K Shanker (2020). "A deeply divergent lineage of Walkerana (Anura: Ranixalidae) from the Western Ghats of Peninsular India". Zootaxa. 4729: 266–276.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Muduga Mountain Leaping Frog: Walkerana muduga". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T167468947A174221826. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T167468947A174221826.en. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Walkerana muduga Dinesh, Vijayakumar, Ramesh, Jayarajan, Chandramouli, and Shanker, 2020". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
- ↑ "Sallywalkerana muduga". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
