Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana gracilis var. nicobariensis Stoliczka, 1870, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 39: 144. Syntypes: Implied by original description to be in ZSIC; ZSIC 2679 regarded as holotype by Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 5; reported as lost by Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 154. Type locality: "Nicobars, in the neighbourhood of the Nancowri harbour".

Lymnodytes nicobariensis — Mason, 1882, Burma, Ed. 3: 291.

Hylorana nicobariensis — Boulenger, 1885, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 16: 389.

Rana nicobariensis — Boulenger, 1885, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 16: 389. Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 8: 291.

Limnonectes (Fejervarya) nicobariensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 61. by implication.

Fejervarya nicobariensis — Dubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 35. Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 93.

English Names

Nicobar Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 20).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Nicobar Island, India).

Comment

Removed provisionally from the synonymy of Fejervarya andamanensis by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 61, where it had been placed by Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 154. Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 297, provided a questionable report for Arunachal Pradesh, as well as for West Bengal.

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