Minervarya andamanensis, commonly known as the Andaman frog, chestnut-brown frog, or Andaman wart frog''Fejervarya andamanensis''
ASW 6.0 is a species of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" '' Triadobatrachus'' is ...

only found in the

Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between th ...

, India. It has been regarded as a synonym of ''Limnonectes limnocharis'', but is now considered a valid

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

. A related, unnamed species exists in western Thailand.

References

andamanensis Frogs of India Endemic fauna of the Andaman Islands Amphibians described in 1870 Taxa named by Ferdinand Stoliczka Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{dicroglossidae-stub