Limnonectes Shompenorum
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''Limnonectes shompenorum'' (common name: Shompen frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in Great Nicobar Island ( India), its type locality, and in western
Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
( Indonesia). It is similar to ''
Limnonectes macrodon The fanged river frog, Javan giant frog, Malaya wart frog, or stone creek frog (''Limnonectes macrodon'') is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae endemic to Sumatra and Java, Indonesia. Records from other regions are probably caused by ...
''. The name refers to Shompen people, the indigenous people of the interior of Great Nicobar Island.


Description

''Limnonectes shompenorum'' is a relatively large, robust frog. Adult females measure in snout–vent length. A male measured in snout–vent length. ''Limnonectes shompenorum'' can be distinguished from its closest relatives by the following suite of characters:
"(1) head narrower than body, and longer than broad; (2) interorbital distance greater than the upper eyelid width; (3) fingers with movable dermal fringe; (4) tips of fingers weakly swollen; (5) finger 4 longer than finger 2; (6) toes completely webbed; (7) dark horizontal loreal stripe; and (8) partially pigmented eggs."


Diet

''Limnonectes shompenorum'' feed on relatively large prey; the stomachs in the type series contained beetles, a cockroach, and a small, unidentified frog.


Habitat and conservation

''Limnonectes shompenorum'' are found in leaf-litter along rivers in tropical forest and forest edges, but also some distance away from rivers. ''Limnonectes shompenorum'' is a common species not considered threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), although these frogs are to some extent suffering from habitat loss and pollution from agriculture. They are also harvested for food.


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2242994 Shompenorum Amphibians described in 1996 Amphibians of Indonesia Frogs of India Fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Fauna of Sumatra Taxonomy articles created by Polbot