Micrixalus thampii Pillai, 1981
Micrixalus thampii Pillai, 1981, Bull. Zool. Surv. India, 3: 153. Holotype: ZSI-SRS VA/778 according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 107. Type locality: "Silent Valley, South India, Alt. 900 metres".
English Names
Silent Valley Tropical Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).
Thampi's Torrent Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 49).
Thampi's Tropical Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 65).
Distribution
Silent Valley of Kerala, South India.
Comment
See brief account by Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 65. Closely related to Micrixalus thampii according to Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 140-141, who provided range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography.
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