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Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Euphlyctis

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Rana ghoshi Chanda, 1991 "1990", Hamadryad, 15: 16-17. Holotype: ZSIC A8472 (formerly ZSI-KZ 318) according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 110 Type locality: "Khugairk Reserve Forest, Manipur, India (alt. ca. 925 m)".

Occidozyga ghoshi — Dutta, 1992, Hamadryad, 17: 1-13.

Euphlyctis ghoshi — Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 116. Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 110).

English Names

Manipur Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Ghosh's Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 13; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 28).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Khugairk Reserve Forest, Manipur, India).

Comment

Related to Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis, Limnonectes corrugatus, and Nanorana sternosignata (all as Rana) according to the original publication. Not addressed by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 305-352. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 113, provided a brief account (as Rana ghoshi). Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 28, provided a brief characterization and illustration.

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