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 trevally taking species of polychaete worms as the preferred species. Studies on gill filtering mechanisms has shown the Malabar trevally's anatomy lies between two extremes, one which is a high filtration area characteristic of planktivorous species and the other of very low area which is associated with species which take large prey items. This further suggests the Malabar trevally can filter the small krill type prey, as well as taking larger fishes and squid. Seasonal diet fluctuation in the species has been observed in northern Australia, where a seasonal abundance of squid causes the preferred prey to change from paenid shrimp