The Purple Frog Spends Nearly Its Whole Life Underground
The purple frog is not the typical frog that most of us are familiar with. Only the Indian Western Ghats mountain region is home to these unusual species. They resemble a frog that a little child would have sketched after seeing one once. In contrast to other more dorsoventrally flattened frogs, the body of Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis appears robust and bloated and is comparatively spherical.
They can resist strong currents by using their flattened bodies to cling to submerged rocks and boulders, which enables them to stay close to stream banks, where they usually live.They have oddly purple-gray, snub-nosed bodies that are unnaturally swollen. They split off from a small species that is only found in the Seychelles millions of years ago, and are most closely connected to it genetically. Over the past 100 million years, they each underwent distinct evolution.
The species wasn't formally described until 2003 since they burrow and are hardly seen. During the monsoon season, they only show themselves for two or three weeks each year. There are just 135 of the frogs known to exist in the wild, and only three of them were female.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Nasikabatrachidae
Genus: Nasikabatrachus
Species: N. sahyadrensis
