Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882
Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 113. Type species: Nyctibatrachus major Boulenger, 1882, by subsequent designation of Myers, 1942, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55: 54.
Nannobatrachus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 470. Type species: Nannobatrachus beddomii Boulenger, 1882, by monotypy. Synonymy by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 68.
English Names
Night Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).
Distribution
Western Ghats of southwestern India from southern Gujarat to southern Tamil Nadu.
Comment
Member of the sufamily Raninae, tribe Ranixalini, according to Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 68 (who subsequently treated this taxon as a subfamily, Ranixalinae; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 335). Dubois, Ohler, and Biju, 2001, Alytes, 19: 57, placed it in their Nyctibatrachinae (Ranidae). See comment under Nyctibatrachidae. Radhakrishnan, Dinesh, and Ravichandran, 2007, Zootaxa, 1595: 31-41, mapped the type localities of members of Nyctibatrachus and provided a key to the species. Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, and Bhatta, 2008, Zootaxa, 1914: 45-56, provided an updated key. Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 1-96, reviewed t he genus and provided accounts for all species known at the time.
Contained taxa
- Nyctibatrachus acanthodermis Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus aliciae Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984
- Nyctibatrachus anamallaiensis (Myers, 1942)
- Nyctibatrachus beddomii (Boulenger, 1882)
- Nyctibatrachus danieli Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, and Bhatta, 2008
- Nyctibatrachus deccanensis Dubois, 1984
- Nyctibatrachus deveni Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus gavi Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus grandis Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus humayuni Bhaduri and Kripalani, 1955
- Nyctibatrachus indraneili Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus jog Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Manjunatha Reddy, and Gururaja, 2007
- Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis (Rao, 1937)
- Nyctibatrachus major Boulenger, 1882
- Nyctibatrachus minimus Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Roelants, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2007
- Nyctibatrachus minor Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984
- Nyctibatrachus periyar Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus petraeus Das and Kunte, 2005
- Nyctibatrachus pillaii Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus poocha Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris Rao, 1920
- Nyctibatrachus shiradi Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
- Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus Rao, 1937
- Nyctibatrachus vasanthi Ravichandran, 1997
- Nyctibatrachus vrijeuni Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
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