''Uperodon mormorata'', also known as the Indian dot frog, marbled ramanella, dark-banded frog, and mottled globular frog, is a species of
narrow-mouthed frog endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the
Western Ghats of southwestern
India
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. It was previously placed in the genus ''Ramanella''.
[ It has only been reported from three locations, though locally found in some numbers.]
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mormoratus
Frogs of India
Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats
Amphibians described in 1937
Taxa named by C. R. Narayan Rao
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