Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, and Bhatta, 2008
Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, and Bhatta, 2008, Zootaxa, 1914: 46. Holotype: ZSI-WGFRS/V/A 646, by original designation. Type locality: "along a slow flowing rivulet upstream of Manikyadhara falls (13° 25′ N latitude; 75° 46′E longitude; altitude approx 1515 m above sea level), Dattatreya Peeta, Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, Chickmagalur district, Karnataka state, Southwestern India".
English Names
Dattatregy Night Frog (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: 22).
Distribution
Known only from Dattatreya Peeta, Kemmannugundi, and Bababudangiri, all in Chickmagalur district, Karnataka, India.
Comment
Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 24-26, provided an account. In the "northern clade", Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris group, of Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Willaert, Giri, Shouche, and Bossuyt, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 839-847.
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