Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Nannobatrachus kempholeyensis Rao, 1937, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 6: 401. Holotype: CCB; now lost according to Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 157. ZSI/WGRC/V/A/798 designated neotype by Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 47. Type locality: "Hills of Kempholey Ghats, Hassan, Mysore, S. India". Neotype from "Kempholay, Hassan district, Karnataka state", India.

Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 68.

English Names

Kempholey 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: 64; Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 46).

Kempholey Wrinkled Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65).

Distribution

Widely distributed in the Western Ghats from Karnataka (Jog falls, Someshwar, Kempholay, Muthodi, Kemmanagundi) to Kerala (Banasura, Suganthagiri), India.

Comment

Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 47-49, provided an account and redelimited the species diagnosis and its range. In the "northern clade", unassigned to species group, of Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Willaert, Giri, Shouche, and Bossuyt, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 839-847.

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