Order: Anura

Family: Dicroglossidae

 

Size:  up to 15 cm in length

Weight: up to 600 g

 

Key Features: largest among the Indian frogs; they are coloured yellowish/olive green and they have dark irregular markings; snout is pointed and they have long hind limbs; toes are nearly entirely webbed.

 

Breeding: Breeding takes place during the monsoon season and large numbers of eggs are laid in pools. There is a high mortality rate among tadpoles and froglets.

 

Diet: consists of insects, small mammals and small birds.

 

Habitat: found in the wetlands it inhabits holes and bushes near permanent bodies of water.

 

Habits: solitary and is usually nocturnal. When they are frightened they jump over the surface of the water in much the same way as they would over land.

 

Conservation Status: Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

 

 

 

 

 

References:

Hoplobatrachus tigerinus . In the Animal Files. Retrieved on 08th July, 2014 from http://www.theanimalfiles.com/amphibians/frogs/indian_bullfrog.html

 

IUCN Red List (2014) http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/58301/0

 

Boulenger, G.A.(1890). Reptilia and Batrachia. In W.T. Blanford (Ed.), The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Berlin:

https://archive.org/stream/reptiliabatrachi00bouliala#page/n1/mode/2up

 

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