''Liurana medogensis'', commonly known as Medog papilla-tongued frog or Medog eastern frog, is a species of frog in the family

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. It is found in Mêdog County, Tibet (China) and in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. However, the records from India might represent another species, and the

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Amphibian Specialist Group (2020) does not include them in the range of this species.

Description

This species is only known from four adult specimens. Males (the

type series In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes the ...

from the Mêdog County) measure in

snout–vent length Snout–vent length (SVL) is a morphometric measurement taken in herpetology from the tip of the snout to the most posterior opening of the cloacal slit (vent)."direct line distance from tip of snout to posterior margin of vent" It is the most c ...

and females (from Arunachal Pradesh) in SVL. One of the females had three large eggs visible through its skin; this suggests that the species has direct development (i.e, there is no free-living larval stage) and does not depend on water bodies for reproduction. Other observations suggest instead larval development in water.

Habitat

''Liurana medogensis'' has been found in both undisturbed and disturbed forest habitats. As delimited for the

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, it inhabits the leaf litter of tropical moist forest at the edge of Xigong Lake at about

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, although its elevational range is expected to be much wider.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q28053391 medogensis Frogs of China Frogs of India Fauna of Tibet Amphibians described in 1997 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot