A survey conducted as part of Eagle Nest Biodiversity Project with support of the state forest department discovered a new frog species in Eagle Nest Wildlife sanctuary at Sessa in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. The frog was named Bompu after the locality in the sanctuary where it was found. The frog is native to the forest streams at an altitude of 2000 metres and lives under leaf litter and rotting logs.
The frog belongs to the family Megophrydae and the genus Leptobrachium. Only 28 members of this genus are known worldwide and most of them are found in Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, China and Vietnam. This discovery is important because only two other members of the genus are known from India.
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