Bufo parietalis

Taxobox
name = "Bufo parietalis"
status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1 [IUCN2006|assessors=Biju "et al"|year=2004|id=54725|title=Bufo parietalis|downloaded=06 May 2006 Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is near threatened]
trend = down

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Bufonidae
genus = "Bufo"
species = "B. parietalis"
binomial = "Bufo parietalis"
binomial_authority = (Boulenger, 1882)

The Ridged Toad, "Bufo parietalis" is a species of toad found in the Western Ghats of India. [Krishna, S. N. Krishna, S. B. 2001. On the natural history of "Bufo parietalis" Boulenger, 1882, Amphibia: Family Bufonidae. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 98(3):456]

Description

Head with very prominent ridges, namely a canthal, a slight preorbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, a parietal, and an orbitotympanic; parietal ridges obliquely directed inwards; snout short, blunt; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, two thirds the diameter of the eye. First finger extending beyond second; toes half webbed, with single subarticular tubercles; two moderate metatarsal tubercles; no tarsal fold. The tarsometatarsal articulation reaches between the eye and the tip of the snout. Upper surfaces covered with irregular warts; parotoids moderately elongate, elliptical, very prominent. Uniform brown above; beneath marbled with brown. Male with a subgular vocal sac. [Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.]

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