Nyctibatrachus minimus Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Roelants, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2007
Nyctibatrachus minimus Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Roelants, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2007, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 93: 854. Holotype: BNHS 4527, by original designation. Type locality: "at an altitude of 1200 m asl, from Kurichiyarmala, 11°35′N, 75°58′E, Wayanad District, Kerala, India".
English Names
Miniature Night Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 64).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Kurichiyarmala, Wayanad District, Kerala) in the Western Ghats of southern India.
Comment
Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 52-54, provided an account. 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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