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Polypedates maculatus

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The fingers are barely webbed, and the toes are two-thirds webbed. The disks of fingers and toes are moderately developed; that of the third finger measures two-fifths to one-half the diameter of the eye. The subarticular tubercles are of moderate size. When the hind leg is held alongside the body,
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regions are dark; there is a light line on the upper lip. The hind side of the thighs has round, yellow spots, which are usually separated by a dark-brown or purplish network. The skin is smooth above, and granulated on the belly and under the thighs; a fold extends from the eye to the shoulder.
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These frogs measure about 7–8 cm in body length. They are mostly brownish, yellowish, greyish, or whitish above, with darker spots or markings, rarely with an hourglass-shaped figure on the back of the head and the front of the back. The
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In south India they can be a nuisance to households as they enter homes in search of food. They can climb walls with the help of their webbed feet and reach even higher floors, entering through the open windows.
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is distinct, and the loral region is concave. The nostril is located much nearer to the end of the snout than to the eye. The interorbital space is broader than the upper eyelid. The
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Lillywhite, Harvey B.; Mittal, Ajay K.; Garg, Tarun K.; Das, Indraneil (1998), "Basking Behavior, Sweating and Thermal Ecology of the Indian Tree Frog,
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or commencing close to the inner front edge of the latter. The skin of head is free; a more or less developed bony arch – sometimes slender and partly
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that help in reducing moisture loss. When temperatures are higher, they secrete from the skin ("sweat"), pant, and adopt lighter skin colours.
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Wheeler, A. (1998), "Dates of publication of J. E. Gray's Illustrations of Indian Zoology (1830–1835)",
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They may use day roosts regularly. Their call is a sudden short and rapid series of rattling
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Date is often given as "1833" but the volume in question was already out in 1830 (
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articulation reaches the eye, or between the eye and the tip of the snout.
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Although now considered as a separate species again, for a time, the
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teeth are arranged in two more or less oblique series between the
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They wipe themselves with skin secretions consisting of
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measures about three-fourths the diameter of the eye.
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Index

Common Indian tree frog
Rhacophorus bipunctatus

Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Rhacophoridae
Polypedates
Binomial name
J.E.Gray
Synonyms
South Asia
John Edward Gray
Himalayan tree frog
subspecies
Polypedates leucomystax

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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