Ramanella anamalaiensis Rao, 1937
Ramanella anamalaiensis Rao, 1937, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 6: 420. Holotype: CCB; lost according to Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 157. Type locality: "Base of Anamallai Hills, Coimbatore District", Tamil Nadu, South India.
English Names
Anamalai Dot Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).
Anamalai Ramanella (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 57).
Reddish-brown Microhylid Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 43).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Tamil Nadu, South India).
Comment
Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 63, and Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 9, noted that the status of this species is problematic as the type specimen is lost and not collected subsequently. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 43, provided a brief account and noted that the species is known only from the type, now lost.
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