Zakerana murthii (Pillai, 1979)
Rana murthii Pillai, 1979, Bull. Zool. Surv. India, 2: 39. Holotype: ZSI-SRS VA/773 according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 110. Type locality: "forest at Naduvattom, Gudallur, Tamil Nadu", Western Ghats, South India.
Limnonectes (Fejervarya) murthii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 61.
Fejervarya murthii — Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 71. by implication; Dubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 35; Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 110; Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 93.
Zakerana murthii — Howlader, 2011, Bangladesh Wildl. Bull., 5: 2.
English Names
Ghats Wart Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 100).
Murthy's Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 19).
Distribution
Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, South India, ca. 2200 m elevation.
Comment
Most similar to Fejevarya greenii (as Rana greeni) according to the original publication. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 128-131, provided a brief account (as Rana murthii). See comments by Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi, and Sumida, 2008 "2007", Curr. Herpetol., 26: 81-105. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 479.
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