Minervarya kadar

The Kadar burrowing frog, Minervarya kadar (first described as Fejervarya kadar), was described in 2017 by Sonali Garg and S. D. Biju as one of four new species split from the rufescent burrowing frog. The holotype, an adult male, was collected at Thavalakuzhipara, at about 577 m in the Vazhachal forest division of Kerala's Thrissur district. It is named after the Kadar tribe, who live in the region. (original Zootaxa citation and news reports).

It lives underground in burrows or under leaf litter and large stones, away from water, and is seen only for two or three weeks a year when it emerges to breed at the onset of the south-west monsoon. A proposed hydroelectric project at the Athirappilly falls was reported to threaten it and other endemic Western Ghats wildlife. (news reports on the original description).