Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana dobsonii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 32. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.28.45, according to Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 168. Type locality: "Mangalore, W. coast of India".

Rana (Tomopterna) dobsonii — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 101-102. Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233; by implication; Dubois, 1983, Alytes, 2: 164.

Tomopterna dobsonii — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 139. by implication; Dutta, 1986, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 83: 123-127.

Sphaerotheca dobsonii — Dubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 35. by implication; Vences, Glaw, Kosuch, Das, and Veith, 2000, Lourenço and Goodman (eds.), Diversité et Endéémisme à Madagascar: 232.

English Names

Mangalore Bullfrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).

Dobson's Burrowing Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 244; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 35).

Distribution

Southern India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh) east and north to Orissa state.

Comment

Considered a synonym of Tomopterna breviceps by Bhati and Shukla, 1975, Ann. Zool., Agra, 11: 73-75, and Dubois, 1983, Alytes, 2: 164, but resurrected by Pillai, 1982, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 79: 363-365, and Dutta, 1986, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 83: 123-127. See account by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 105. Orissa records by Dutta, 1998 "1997", Hamadryad, 22: 117-118. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 57, regarded the name Rana dobsonii as either another nominal species within the group or incertae sedis within the subgenus Sphaerotheca of Tomopterna. Without discussion, Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 17, suggested that this is a junior synonym of Tomopterna pluvialis. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 143-144, 213, provided a brief account (as Tomopterna dobsoni). Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 160-161, provided a range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 244-24245, provided an account. Srinivasulu and Das, 2008, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 11: 110-131, reported the species in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh.

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