Kingdom Animalia Class Amphibia Family Nyctibatrachidae Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Order Anura Genus Nyctibatrachus | |
Similar Dattatreya night frog, Giant wrinkled frog, Nyctibatrachus, Bombay night frog | ||
The VUB night frog (Nyctibatrachus vrijeuni) is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae. Both the specific name, "vrijeuni", and the acronym in the common name, "VUB", refer to Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Free University of Brussels. It is one of 12 new species of frogs in the genus Nyctibatrachus discovered in September 2011. It is found exclusively in the Western Ghats, India.
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