Malabar rainforests six endemic genera ("Indotyphlus, Melanobatrachus, Nannobatrachus, Nyctibatrachus, Ranixalus", and "Uraeotyphlus"). As of 1997, 13 protected areas had been designated, covering an area of over 3,200 km². Malabar rainforests The term Malabar rainforests refers to one or more distinct ecoregions recognized by biogeographers: The Monsooned Malabar blend of coffee bean comes from the area. The Malabar Coast moist forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southwestern India. It lies along India's Konkan and Malabar coasts, in a narrow strip between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats range, which runs parallel to the coast. It has an area of
Malabar grouper Malabar grouper The Malabar grouper or greasy grouper, "Epinephelus malabaricus", is a species of marine fish in the family Serranidae. The Malabar grouper is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific area from the eastern coast of Africa to the Tonga Islands, Red Sea included.> It has also been recorded in the Levantine Sea and the eastern Mediterranean, as a Lessespian migrant through the Suez Canal, although it is still rather rare in the Mediterranean. This grouper lives in various habitats, such as lagoons, mangroves, coral and rocky reefs, sandy and muddy bottom areas, between 2 and 150