- Duttaphrynus microtympanum
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Duttaphrynus microtympanum 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Bufonidae Genus: Duttaphrynus Species: D. microtympanum Binomial name Duttaphrynus microtympanum
(Schneider, 1799)Synonyms Bufo microtympanum
Duttaphrynus microtympanum is a species of toad found in the Western Ghats of India.
Description
Head with prominent bony ridges, viz. a canthal, a pre-orbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, and a short orbito-tympanic; snout short, blunt; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum very small, not half the diameter of eye, generally indistinct. First finger extending beyond second; toes about half webbed, with single subarticular tubercles; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The tarsometatarsal articulation reaches the eye, or between the eye and the tip of the snout. Upper surfaces with irregular, distinctly porous warts; parotoids prominent, elliptical, twice or twice and a half as long as broad. Brown above; yellow beneath, marbled with brown. Male with a subgular vocal sac.
From snout to vent 3 inches.[1]
References
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. (1890) Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia
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