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 semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...

only found in the

Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago, made up of 200 islands, 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 mari ...

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

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

. 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