''Minervarya nepalensis'' (Nepal cricket frog or Nepal warty frog) is a small-sized

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 ...

native to northern and northeastern

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, and

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. It has recently been reported also from

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. Having distinct and narrow middorsal line (MDL); indistinct skin fringe on outer side of 5th toe; relative finger length (RFL) is 2<1<4<3, 1st finger scarcely longer than 2nd; laterally dark and medially pale throat in males; body tubercles oblong, arranged in longitudinal folds; and snout jutting over jaw.

References

* Rasel, M.M.R., Hannan, M.A. and Howlader, M.S.A. 2007. Four new country records of ''Fejervarya'' Bolkay, 1915 (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae) from Bangladesh. Bonnoprani – Bangladesh Wildlife Bulletin 4(1-2): 1–3. nepalensis Amphibians of Bangladesh Amphibians of Bhutan Frogs of India Amphibians of Nepal Amphibians described in 1975 {{Dicroglossidae-stub