Nyctibatrachus anamallaiensis (Myers, 1942)
Nannobatrachus anamallaiensis Myers, 1942, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55: 49. Holotype: CAS-SU 7197, by original designation. Type locality: "Puthutotam Estate, Valparai P.O., Anamallai Hills, [Tamil Nadu,] Southern India".
Nyctibatrachus anamallaiensis Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Roelants, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2007, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 93: 855.
English Names
Anamallai Night Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 61; Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 18).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality and its environs at Valparai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Nyctibatrachus beddomii by Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Roelants, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2007, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 93: 855, where it had been placed by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 412. Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 18-20, provided an account. In the "southern clade", Nyctibatrachus beddomii group, of Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Willaert, Giri, Shouche, and Bossuyt, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 839-847, who also noted a closely related by unnamed species from Vellayanippacha, Kerala, India.
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