Micrixalus elegans (Rao, 1937)
Philautus elegans Rao, 1937, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 6: 407. Holotype: CCB; now lost according to Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 157. Type locality: "Kempholey, Hassan", Karnataka, India.
Micrixalus elegans — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 48.
English Names
Elegant Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).
Crimson Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66).
Elegant Bush Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 154).
Elegant Torrent Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 45).
Distribution
Southwestern India.
Comment
Transferred provisionally to Micrixalus by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 48-49. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 154, provided a brief account (as Philautus elegans).
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