Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Nannobatrachus beddomii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 470. Syntypes: BMNH (several specimens), MCZ 2905-07 (on exchange from BMNH, according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 307), and FMNH 73344 (according to Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 145). Type locality: "Malabar" and "Tinnevelly [= Tirunelveli]", India.

Nyctibatrachus beddomii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 68. Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Roelants, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2007, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 93: 855.

English Names

Beddome's Night Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 62; Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 20).

Pigmy Wrinkled Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 220).

Tirunvelveli's Hill Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 66).

Beddome's Dwarf Wrinkled Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 220).

Distribution

Known only from Athirimala and Ponmudi of Kerala state, Sengaltheri and "Tinnevelly" of Tamil Nadu, 400-1800 m elevation.

Comment

See corrigenda to description in Boulenger, 1883, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 12: 163. Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 412-414, provided a brief account. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 16, noted the range. See brief account by Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 66-68. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 145-146, provided range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 220-222, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 487. Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 20-22, provided an account and redelimited the species diagnosis and its range. In the "southern clade", Nyctibatrachus beddomii group, of Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Willaert, Giri, Shouche, and Bossuyt, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 839-847.

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