Question

Endemic species of amphibians in India is
a. $33\%$
b. $53\%$
c. $60\%$
d. $36\%$

Answer 1

Hint: Amphibians are vertebrate animals, where they usually live in water and some moisture areas, amphibians have very thin skin, which helps in the absorption of water, and it has special glands that release the proteins and some examples of amphibians are frogs, toads, salamanders, etc.

Complete answer:
- The meaning of the endemic means, the species where they are native to the particular geographical area, and not found anywhere else in other regions in the world.
- Totally 472 species of the amphibians are present in India, among them 300 species are endemic.
- The western ghat is a globally recognized biological diversity of India and ecologically sensitive and most amphibians are like 179 are found, and among them, $87\%$ of them are endemic to the western ghat region.
- When coming to some features of amphibians, they are, Amphibians live in both water and land.
- They are considered as endothermic, as they live in warm temperature.
- They have a head, trunk and tail that may or may not be present.
- The skin is smooth and rough but scales are absent, due to sebaceous glands oil is produced on the skin.
- They have two limbs used for locomotion, and they have 3 chambered hearts, respire through lungs and skin.
- Some of the endemic amphibians of India include meghalayanus, bufoides, bufoides kempi, blethophyrene berret, meghopyrus Parva, etc.

Hence, The correct answer is option (C).

Note: There are almost 5,500 known amphibians are there and they divided into 3 groups mainly, such as Salamanders, Newest, Mudpuppies, caecilians which means frogs and toads and among all the Japanese giant is the biggest one 6 feet long and the golden frog is 1cm and smaller one.