• ●Ingerana aizawl is a newly described species of frog, named after Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram.
• ●Type locality: Hratdawng Stream on the Mizoram University campus, about 15 km west of central Aizawl.
• ●Described in the journal Zootaxa on 14 September 2026.
• ●The team was drawn from Mizoram University, Cotton University (Guwahati) and the conservation organisation Help Earth; the researchers include Hmar Tlawngte Lalremsanga and Manmath Bharali.
• ●The genus Ingerana belongs to the family Dicroglossidae and was erected by the French herpetologist Alain Dubois in 1987.
• ●Mizoram populations previously passed as Ingerana borealis, the northern frog, described by Annandale in 1912 from Arunachal Pradesh.
• ●Adult males measure 22-25.5 mm and females 24.4-26 mm in snout-to-vent length.
• ●It has a distinct circular tympanum, a prominent supratympanic fold, small rounded discs on the fingers and toes, and a strongly wrinkled back.
• ●Colour: predominantly dark brown to reddish-brown, with darker flanks forming a diffuse band towards the groin; the iris is dark brown to blackish with a faint coppery tint.
• ●Habitat: streams, wetlands and marshes; most individuals were seen at night on wet rocks beside trickling or cascading streams, sheltering by day in rock crevices, moist leaf litter and bushes.
• ●Breeding appears to coincide with the monsoon; the call has about 12 notes, lasts roughly 1.42 seconds and peaks at 3,359 Hz.

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