Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Ixalus silvaticus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 469. Syntypes: BMNH 82.2.10.52-59 (according to Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 53) and NHMW 22913 (according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 23, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 27). Type locality: "Malabar", South India. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality.

Micrixalus silvaticus — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 205. Boulenger, 1890, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. Batr.: 466-467.

Staurois silvaticus — Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 130.

English Names

Southern Tropical Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).

Forest Torrent Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 48).

Boulenger's Malabar Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 62).

Distribution

Tamil Nadu and Kerala, South India.

Comment

See brief account by Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 62-64.

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