#Nasikabatrachus

[herpsandbirds]

Purple Frogs (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), mating, family Nasikabatrachidae, endemic to the Wesxtern Ghats of India

photographs by Dr Ashish Thomas

[markscherz]

I have a question. Out of all the amphibians you can think of, which have the most protuberant, goofy-looking, bug eyes? Like, I know most frogs and toads have pretty bulging eyes but there's gotta one or two species that take that up to eleven? Love your blog, it's a really nice mix of informative and fluffiness.

Oof, this is a tough one. Really had to give it some thought.

Purple frogs, Nasikabatrachus, have eyes that look like they have been glued onto a ball of clay:

Photo: Sandeep Das

But I feel like that's not what you're going for.

I think perhaps the most strikingly bulbous eyes belong to frogs of the genus Leptobrachium

[src] L. hendricksoni

These frogs have such huge heads—and then in those heads such huge eyes—that they really look like they were drawn by a cartoonist.

[src] L. lunatum

[funkyfrogoftheday]

today's elegant frog of the day is the purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they're endemic to the western ghats mountain range and spend most of their lives underground! they are also, notably, rather purple.

photo by sivabirds!

[considernature]

WAKE THE FUCK UP TUMBLR IT'S WORLD FROG DAY

LOOK AT THIS GUY:

Galaxy Frog (Melanobatrachus indicus): Vulnerable. Image credit: David V Raju CC BY-SA 4.0

AND THIS GUY:

Puerto Rican Crested Toad (Peltophryne lemur). Endangered. Image credit: US FWS

AND THIS GUY:

Indian Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis): Near Threatened. Image credit: Sandeep Das

We share our planet with over 7500 species of frogs and toads, but yet over a third of them are threatened with extinction due to human activity!

WE MUST PROTECT THESE FUNKY LIL GUYS

Check out the links below to learn about two endangered frog species and what YOU can do to help protect them from extinction!

Now, I shall commence the FROG BOMBING.

[frogkiing]

frog bi pride flag!

featuring: Atelopus hoogmoedi Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis Dendrobates tinctorius

[planetsviews]

10 Lesser-Known Animals and Their Unique Eating Habits 🦜🌿

Aye-Aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)

Habitat: Madagascar 🌴

Diet: Insects, particularly wood-boring grubs 🪲

Feeding Habits: The aye-aye uses its long, thin middle finger to tap on trees to locate hollow chambers where grubs reside. Once a grub is located, it gnaws a hole in the wood with its forward-slanting incisors and uses its elongated finger to extract the grub. 🦷👆

Blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus)

Habitat: Deep sea, off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand 🌊

Diet: Crustaceans, sea urchins, and other deep-sea creatures 🦀

Feeding Habits: The blobfish lacks muscles, so it doesn't actively hunt. Instead, it floats along the sea floor, opening its mouth to suck in any edible matter that drifts by. 🍽️

Pangolin (Pholidota)

Habitat: Various habitats across Asia and Africa 🌍

Diet: Ants and termites 🐜

Feeding Habits: Pangolins have long, sticky tongues that they use to probe ant and termite nests. They have strong claws to break into the nests and a sticky tongue to lap up the insects. 👅

Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)

Habitat: Rivers in the Indian subcontinent 🌊

Diet: Fish 🐟

Feeding Habits: The gharial has a long, narrow snout filled with sharp teeth, perfect for catching fish. It uses a swift side-to-side snapping motion to catch fish swimming by. 🐊

Star-Nosed Mole (Condylura cristata)

Habitat: Wet lowland areas in North America 🦔

Diet: Small invertebrates, aquatic insects, worms 🪱

Feeding Habits: This mole uses its star-shaped nose, covered in sensory receptors, to detect prey. It can identify and consume small prey in a fraction of a second. 🌟

Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)

Habitat: Swamps, river forests of the Amazon Basin 🌳

Diet: Leaves and vegetation 🍃

Feeding Habits: The hoatzin has a specialized digestive system that ferments vegetation similar to a cow’s stomach. It spends hours digesting leaves in its crop, a part of its digestive tract. 🐦

Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)

Habitat: Eucalyptus forests in Australia 🌏

Diet: Termites 🐜

Feeding Habits: Numbats use their long, sticky tongues to probe into narrow crevices and galleries within termite mounds. They can eat up to 20,000 termites a day. 👅

Leafcutter Ant (Atta spp.)

Habitat: Tropical rainforests in Central and South America 🌲

Diet: Fungi that they cultivate 🧫

Feeding Habits: Leafcutter ants cut leaves and carry them back to their nests, where they use the leaves to grow a special fungus, which serves as their primary food source. 🍄

Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis)

Habitat: Western Ghats of India 🌄

Diet: Termites 🐜

Feeding Habits: Spending most of its life underground, the purple frog comes out only during the monsoon season to breed. It uses its specialized tongue to feed on termites in underground colonies. 🐸

Vampire Finch (Geospiza difficilis septentrionalis)

Habitat: Galápagos Islands 🌴

Diet: Blood of other birds, insects 🌿

Feeding Habits: The vampire finch pecks at the skin of larger birds like boobies to drink their blood. This behavior likely evolved due to scarce food resources. 🦜

These lesser-known animals each have unique and fascinating feeding habits that highlight the incredible diversity of the natural world. 🌍✨

[umilily]

Oh oh lily lily how about 5 tropes you really like..... and your top 5 creatures ever. I wanna know

oh, that's an interesting question! ...

tropes (i see a pattern here)

mutual pining

there was only one bed

(childhood) friends to lovers

idiots in love (if they've got more than one braincell between them, what even is the point?)

hurt/comfort (with emphasis on the comfort pls)

honourable mentions: fake dating (the dumber the reasoning for it the better), everyone thinks they're dating but they're not, and putting characters from very wild(tm) settings into the most mundane situations possible

and creatures.... (there are so many, how am i supposed to choose?!!)

Bombylius major

Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (pls look this up, this is the frog i've ever seen)

world's fastest crouton (some kind of boxfish idk the species)

skinks. (they are so shaped. look at their tiny legs.)

this penguin specifically. (i feel so bad about how much this video makes me laugh, but everything about this is perfect. the thick german accent. the music. the script. i am in tears.)

honourable mention: himenui. (aka THE creature)

[bestfrogbracket]

Japanese Common Toad: Traditionally, these toads have had the venom from their glands used medicinally. In terms of behaviour, they hibernate underground over winter. When the temperature rises enough, in February/March, they undergo the migration to their breeding pools, using their sense of smell to find their way. They also eat an unpopular selection of insects including earthworms and carotid beetles, which are unsavoury due to the formic acid within them.

Indian Purple Frog: This species’ striking pointed nose is used to dig underground for their primary food source: termites, which they likely slurp up with their tongue. Not only eating there but also calling from under a layer of soil, they spend more time underground than most other burrowing frogs. They tend to only surface for mating during the rainy season. Tadpoles grow in quick-flowing streams, and have oral suckers to help them cling onto rocks. They are also used in traditional local medicine.

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[herpsandbirds]

Purple Frogs (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), mating & laying eggs, family Nasikabatrachidae, Western Ghats, India

Photograph by Sandeep Das

[markscherz]

frogs are my sister's favorite animal, any frogs I should show her?

Might I suggest Frogs With Snoots®

Choerophryne proboscidea [src]

Litoria pinocchio [src]

Pristimantis appendiculatus [src]

Litoria mucro [src]

Megophrys nasuta [src]

Synapturanus danta [src]

Scinax garbei [src]

Rhinoderma darwinii [src]

Hemisus marmoratus [src]

Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis [src]

Rhinella lilyrodriguezae [src]

Triprion petasatus [src]

Hemiphractus proboscideus [src]

Need I go on?

[rainbowxocs]

I know the answer to that frog question! It's nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, the Indian Purple Frog!

UH. INDIAN PURPLE FROG?

[pleistocene-pride]

Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, better known as the purple frog, Indian purple frog, or pignose frog is a species of burrowing frog in the genus Nasikabatrachus which is endemic to the Western Ghats in India. The frog spends most of its life underground near streams, creeks, pools, ponds, and wetlands, surfacing only for a period of 2 weeks during the monsoon season in order to mate. With few field scientists out in the field during the rainy season, the adult form of this species was only discovered and formally scientifically described in October 2003. However the Tadpoles had been described in 1917 by Nelson Annandale and C. R. Narayan Rao and thought to belong to a completely different species. Unlike many other burrowing species of frogs that emerge and feed above the ground typically at night, the purple frog forages for food whilst completely submerged and/ or buried feeding on a variety of termites, grubs, larvae, worms, crustaceans, and aquatic insects. Reaching around 1 to 3.5 inches (2.5 to 9cms) in length and 3.5 to 7 ounces (100 to 200grams) in weight, with males being typically around 1/3rd the length of the females, the purple frog sports a robust, bloated, rounded dorsoventrally flattened body. Their flattened body assists them to cling to submerged rocks and boulders which essentially helps them fight strong currents, allowing them to remain near stream banks where they typically reside. The arms and legs splay out in the standard anuran body form. Purple frogs have a small head with an unusually pointed snout. As the name suggests, adults are typically dark purplish-grey in color. During the monsoon season males emerge to call beside temporary rainwater streams. Females approach and then carry the males on their backs to the egg laying sites which are usually crevices along the fast-flowing streams. Here they will mate with mother purple frogs laying some 3000 eggs. The eggs soon hatch into tadpoles, which are mottled yellow and purplish brown with strong tails, broad heads and oral suckers which help them cling to rocks in the current. After 100 days the tadpoles fully metamorphose.

[considernature]

Hello everyone! Damn, the paddlefish article has really brought a lot of new folks to this blog! Welcome everyone, and thank you so much for joining this lovely little project of mine--I am so grateful that so many people have taken an interest in my work and in the species I want to help protect.

Since there are so many new folks here, I wanted to give a brief rundown on the articles I've written so far. In the last year and a half of this project, I've been able to write about seventeen awesome and unique species that are in need of further conservation attention. Here are some links to learn more about them:

Olm (Proteus anguinus): the OG and mascot for the site, this eyeless salamander manages to survive in its pitch-dark cave biome through incredible sensory abilities and supernatural patience.

Indian Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis): this comically-ugly creature is also incredibly mysterious, spending its entire life underground and only emerging for a single day each year.

Pygmy Hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis): this secretive, pig-sized mammal is the only surviving relative of the mighty river hippo, but lives a completely different lifestyle from its much more famous cousin.

Scaly-Foot Snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum): one of the weirdest animals on the planet, this snail grows a shell reinforced with iron and lives around hydrothermal vents deep beneath the surface of the Indian ocean.

Kaua'i Cave Wolf Spider (Adelocosa anops): this blind cave spider is one of the rarest arthropods on Earth, and lives in tunnels carved by lava flows beneath the surface of the Hawaiian Island of Kaua'i.

Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex): this huge African water bird uses its tremendous beak like a guillotine to smash and decapitate its prey.

Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis): this relative of sharks and rays has a tremendous nose lined with teeth which it uses to dig up and swipe at prey, but that's not the only thing its nose is good for.

Takin (Budorcas taxicolor): this large goat relative is quite possibly the most mysterious large land mammal on Earth, as it lives deep in the forested mountains of China, India, and Bhutan.

Zacatuche (Romerolagus diazi): also known as the "volcano rabbit", this adorable little fellow is an excellent gateway into understanding the benefits of grasslands to ecosystems and human settlements alike. Done in collaboration with Mexico'a CONANP.

(tambien en español)

Secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius): this badass raptor stalks the African savannah, using its powerful legs to deliver one of the fastest and most accurate kicks in the animal kingdom (and yes it's also the bird from Aggretsuko).

Manchineel (Hippomane mancinella): the first plant written about on Consider Nature (though certainly not the last), the manchineel is quite possibly the most toxic tree in the world, with every part of its anatomy steeped with a variety of noxious substances.

Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus): this crocodilian is a fish specialist, using its long, slender snout like a rapier to cut through the water and snag its prey.

Vaquita (Phocoena sinus): the most-endangered mammal on the face of the Earth, the Vaquita is a tiny porpoise that has gotten caught up in the black market trade of an extremely valuable fish bladder. Done in collaboration with Sea Shepherd International.

Pekapeka (Mystacina tuberculata): this tiny bat species is one of only 2 mammals native to New Zealand and spends more time on the ground than any other bat species in the world, despite being able to fly.

Angular Roughshark (Oxynotus centrina): this shark is native to the coasts of Western Europe and Africa, where it lives over a thousand feet beneath the waves and is rarely seen by people.

Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus): these iguanas are the only seafaring lizards in the world, and have developed a variety of remarkable adaptations to survive the extreme conditions of the Galapagos Islands.

And as always, if you have any suggestions, questions, or just want to say hi, you can DM me here or email me at considernatureblog@gmail.com. Welcome, and thank you for your support.

[frogkiing]

frog asexual pride flag!

featuring: Leptobrachium lunatum Chiromantis xerampelina Phyllobates terribilis Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis

[internetdruid]

hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus)

aardvark (Orycteropus afer)

greater hog badger (Arctonyx collaris)

hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus humboldtii)

pig-nosed turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)

sulawesi snouter (Hyorhinomys stuempkei)

pignose frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis)

kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai)

I could and would go on, except the nurse has arrived with my sedative.

My favorite genre of creature is anything hog-nosed 🐽