Pradhan, Aditya (2021) Frog Bites Snake: A Robust Horned Frog (Megophrys robusta) Bites a Himalayan Keelback (Herpetoreas platyceps) in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. Reptiles & Amphibians, 28 (3).
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Abstract
Asian horned frogs (Megophryidae: Megophrys) are distributed across southern and southeastern Asia, including India, Bhutan, China, the Sunda Islands, and The Philippines (Frost 2021). Considered rare across the range (Jha and Thapa 2002), very little is known about the natural history of many of these frogs. Megophryids are known to be opportunistic and generalist predators, and their diet, which consists largely of insects, varies depending on prey availability (Emmerson et al. 1994; Wells 2007).The Robust Horned Frog (M. robusta) is known to occur in Darjeeling, India (Pradhan et al. 2018), where it is associated with damp humid forests and fast-flowing hill streams (Mahony et al. 2018).
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| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. |
| Subjects: | A ATREE Publications > G Journal Papers |
| Divisions: | The Himalaya Initiative > The Himalaya Initiative |
| Depositing User: | Ms Library Staff |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2025 03:56 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2026 09:14 |
| URI: | http://archives.atree.org/id/eprint/1246 |

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