Micrixalus fuscus (Boulenger, 1882)
Ixalus fuscus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 96. Syntypes: Many specimens in BMNH including animal figured in pl. 10, fig. 3 in the original publication; syntypes are BMNH 72.4.12.256, 74.4.29.258-265, 74.4.29.927-930, 74.4.29.1401-1404, 74.4.29.1459-64, 74.4.29.1506-08 according to S. Dutta in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 461. Syntypes considered to be BMNH 1874.4.29-1506-1508 by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 53. Type localities: "Travancore"; "Torocata"; "Anamallays"; "Sevagherry"; "Malabar"; "N. Canara" (all localities in India).
Micrixalus fuscus — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 205.
Micrixalus herrei Myers, 1942, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55: 71. Holotype: CAS-SU 7265, by original designation. Type locality: "Kallar, 30 miles northeast of Trivandrum, Travancore, South India". Synonymy by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 410.
Staurois fuscus — Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 130.
English Names
Brown Tropical Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).
Dusky Torrent Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 211; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 46).
Distribution
Southern Western Ghats of South India: Karnataka (North Canara), Kerala (Travancore Hills), and Tamil Nadu (Tirunelveli Hills).
Comment
See brief accounts by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 410-412, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 57-58 (who, page 58, also recognized Micrixalus herrei as distinct, without discussion). Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 139-140, provided range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 211-212, provided an account. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 630, who suggested that this taxon is a species complex.
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