Limnonectes shompenorum Das, 1996
Limnonectes shompenorum Das, 1996, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 2: 127. Holotype: ZSIC A8741, by original designation. Type locality: "ca. 2 km east of Kopen Heat, ca. 14 km on the East-West Road, Great Nicobar, India".
English Names
Shompen Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 29).
Distribution
Great Nicobar Island, India; western Sumatra (provinces of Aceh, Sumatera Utara, Sumatera Barat, Riau, Bengkulu, and Sumeatera Selatan), Indonesia
Comment
Similar to Limnonectes macrodon according to the original publication. Inger and Iskandar, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., 53: 138, provided the Sumatran record. Teynié, David, and Ohler, 2010, Zootaxa, 2416: 9-10, commented on additional Sumatran material.
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