# Indosylvirana urbis-Kadavoor-2017-05-05-001

- By: Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India
- Date: 5 May 2017
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indosylvirana_urbis-Kadavoor-2017-05-05-001.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/1/19/Indosylvirana_urbis-Kadavoor-2017-05-05-001.jpg/1920px-Indosylvirana_urbis-Kadavoor-2017-05-05-001.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Indosylvirana urbis, Urban Golden-backed Frog, is a species of frog known only in the southern Western Ghats from Ernakulam, Malappuram, and Thrissur districts in Kerala. Usually found in urban areas in open bodies of water below 150 m elevation. Ref: Amphibian Species of the World, DNA barcoding, phylogeny and systematics of Golden-backed frogs.. (ID: AmphibianIndia)

Here it is resting comfortably in the pink colored boat-shaped bract of the Curcuma angustifolia (East Indian Arrowroot) flower.

