Description
The body of Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis is shaped similarly to that of most frogs, but is somewhat rounded compared to other more dorsoventrally-flattened frogs. Its arms and legs splay out in the standard anuran body form. Compared to other frogs, N. sahyadrensis has a small head and an unusual pointed snout. Adults are typically dark purple in color. Males are about a third of the length of females. The specimen with which the species was originally described was seven centimeters long from the tip of the snout to the tip of the urostyle. Tadpoles of the species had been described in 1917 by Nelson Annandale and C. R. Narayan Rao as having suckers that allowed them to live in torrential streams. Similar adaptations exist in the fishes of the hill streams.
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