''Minervarya brevipalmata'', commonly known as short-webbed frog, Peters' frog, and Pegu wart frog, is a species of

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found in the Western Ghats of southern India (

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, and

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states). ''M. brevipalmata'' is a little-known and uncommon grassland frog associated with waterlogged or marshy areas, but it has also been recorded from suitable wet patches of forest and lightly degraded former forest.

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brevipalmata Frogs of India Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats Amphibians described in 1871 Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Dicroglossidae-stub