Liurana medogensis

Liurana medogensis, commonly known as Medog papilla-tongued frog or Medog eastern frog, is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is found in Mêdog County, Tibet and in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. However, the records from India might represent another species, and the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group does not include them in the range of this species.

Description

This species is only known from four adult specimens. Males measure in snout–vent length and females in SVL. One of the females had three large eggs visible through its skin; this suggests that the species has direct development and does not depend on water bodies for reproduction. Other observations suggest instead larval development in water.

Habitat

Liurana medogensis has been found in both undisturbed and disturbed forest habitats. As delimited for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, it inhabits the leaf litter of tropical moist forest at the edge of Xigong Lake at about above sea level, although its elevational range is expected to be much wider.