Goan cricket frog
| Goan cricket frog | |
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| File:Goan Cricket Frog imported from iNaturalist photo 238782398 on 31 March 2024.jpg | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dicroglossidae |
| Genus: | Minervarya |
| Species: | M. gomantaki
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| Binomial name | |
| Minervarya gomantaki (Dinesh, Vijayakumar, Channakeshavamurthy, Torsekar, Kulkarni, and Shanker, 2015)
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The Gomantak white-lipped cricket frog or Goan Fejervarya (Minervarya gomantaki) is a species of frog. It lives in India.[2][3][1]
Home
This frog lives in grassy places in forests, in mud, ponds, ponds that dry up for part of the year, paddy fields, and puddles. People have seen it on cashew nut farms. It is good at living in places that people have changed. Scientists saw this frog between 50 and 800 meters above sea level.[2][1]
Scientists saw this frog in protected places: Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, Tillari Conservation Reserve, Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, and Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary.[1]
Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. Chemicals that farmers use to kill insects that eat plants can kill this frog. Climate change could hurt this frog by changing the places where the frog lives and lays eggs. Scientists found the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on other frogs in Minervarya, so they think the fungal sickness chytridiomycosis could kill this frog too.[1]
First paper
- Dinesh KP; Vijayakumar SP; Channakeshavamurthy BH; Toreskar VR; Kulkarni NU; Shankar K (2015). "Systematic status of Fejervarya (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae) from South and SE Asia with the description of a new species from the Western Ghats of Peninsular India". Zootaxa (Abstract and references). 3999: 79–94. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3999.1.5. Retrieved July 17, 2025.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Goan Fejervarya: Minervarya gomantaki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T112690264A112690319. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T112690264A112690319.en. Retrieved July 17, 2025.
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