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with glandular projections on the lower jaw. The side of the body is slightly lighter than the back, and the underside is mainly off-white, with some scattered greyish-brown spots on the throat. The limbs are light brown with horizontal dark brown bands above and off-white with scattered greyish-brown spots below. The fingers and toes are dark grey, with dark brown bands across the upper side. When preserved in 70%
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absence of glandular folds on the sides of the back; the presence of the dorso-terminal groove (groove on the upper side of the tip of the digit) on the third finger and fourth toe; the discs on the third finger and fourth toe being well-developed and slightly wider than the finger and toe, respectively; two
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Dinesh, K. P.; Radhakrishnan, C.; Deepak, P.; Kulkarni, N. U. (2023). A Checklist of Indian
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