Raorchestes kakachi

Raorchestes kakachi, the Kakachi shrub frog, is endemic to the southern Western Ghats and was described from bushes near Kakachi in the Agastyamalai region. It is a small frog: males range from 24.7 to 25.8 mm and females from 24.3 to 34.1 mm, based on three specimens of each. Females are larger and carry a large ovary with creamy white eggs (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is distinguished from its relatives by an oval snout seen from above, an indistinct tympanum, a head wider than long and moderate webbing on the hind feet. The iris is dark brown, and calling usually begins early in the evening. Like other Raorchestes, it breeds through direct development with no free-swimming tadpole stage (Wikipedia, general species account).