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| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{Cite iucn | author = Iskandar, D. | author2 = Mumpuni, Das, I. | author3 = Vijayakumar, S.P. | name-list-style = amp | title = ''Limnonectes shompenorum'' | volume = 2004 | page = e.T58366A11772127 | date = 2004 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58366A11772127.en }}</ref><br />
| taxon = Limnonectes shompenorum<br />
| authority = Das, 1996<br />
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'''''Limnonectes shompenorum''''' (common name: '''Shompen frog''') is a species of [[frog]] in the family [[Dicroglossidae]]. It is found in [[Great Nicobar Island]] ([[India]]), its [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]], and in western [[Sumatra]] ([[Indonesia]]). It is similar to ''[[Limnonectes macrodon]]''.<ref name=frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Dicroglossidae/Dicroglossinae/Limnonectes/Limnonectes-shompenorum |title=''Limnonectes shompenorum'' Das, 1996 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2014 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=13 April 2014}}</ref> The name refers to [[Shompen people]], the indigenous people of the interior of Great Nicobar Island.<ref name=Das>{{cite journal |last1=Das |first1=I. |year=1996 |title=''Limnonectes shompenorum'', a new species of ranid frog of the ''Rana macrodon'' complex from Great Nicobar, India |journal=Journal of South Asian Natural History |volume=2 |pages=127–134 |url=http://www.wht.lk/zeylanica/volume-2-number-1/Das%20I.%20Limnonectes%20shompenorum%20a%20new%20species%20of%20ranid%20frog%20of%20the%20Rana%20macrodon%20complex%20from%20Great%20Nicobar%20India.pdf |access-date=2014-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414080530/http://www.wht.lk/zeylanica/volume-2-number-1/Das%20I.%20Limnonectes%20shompenorum%20a%20new%20species%20of%20ranid%20frog%20of%20the%20Rana%20macrodon%20complex%20from%20Great%20Nicobar%20India.pdf |archive-date=2014-04-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Description==<br />
''Limnonectes shompenorum'' is a relatively large, robust frog. Adult females measure {{convert|72|-|88|mm|abbr=on}} in snout–vent length.<ref name=Das/><ref name=Inger/> A male measured {{convert|84|mm|abbr=on}} in snout–vent length.<ref name=Inger>{{cite journal |last1=Inger |first1=R. F. |last2=Iskandar |first2=D. T. |year=2005 |title=A collection of amphibians from West Sumatra, with description of a new species of ''Megophrys'' (Amphibia: Anura) |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=53 |pages=133–142 |url=http://www.sith.itb.ac.id/profile/djoko/paralella2005.pdf |access-date=2014-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414201754/http://www.sith.itb.ac.id/profile/djoko/paralella2005.pdf |archive-date=2014-04-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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''Limnonectes shompenorum'' can be distinguished from its closest relatives by the following suite of characters:<ref name=Das/><blockquote>"(1) head narrower than body, and longer than broad; (2) interorbital distance greater than the upper eyelid width; (3) fingers with movable dermal fringe; (4) tips of fingers weakly swollen; (5) finger 4 longer than finger 2; (6) toes completely webbed; (7) dark horizontal loreal stripe; and (8) partially pigmented eggs."</blockquote><br />
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==Diet==<br />
''Limnonectes shompenorum'' feed on relatively large prey; the stomachs in the type series contained beetles, a cockroach, and a small, unidentified frog.<ref name=Das/><br />
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==Habitat and conservation==<br />
''Limnonectes shompenorum'' are found in leaf-litter along rivers in tropical forest and forest edges,<ref name=IUCN/> but also some distance away from rivers.<ref name=Das/> ''Limnonectes shompenorum'' is a common species not considered threatened by the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]] (IUCN), although these frogs are to some extent suffering from habitat loss and pollution from agriculture. They are also harvested for food.<ref name=IUCN/><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Limnonectes|Shompenorum]]<br />
[[Category:Amphibians described in 1996]]<br />
[[Category:Amphibians of Indonesia]]<br />
[[Category:Frogs of India]]<br />
[[Category:Fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]<br />
[[Category:Fauna of Sumatra]]<br />
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