Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Polypedates beddomii Günther, 1876 "1875", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875: 571. Syntypes: BMNH (some of which are referrable to Indirana brachytarsus, according to Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 423); syntypes include BMNH 1947.2.27.73, 1947.2.27.82, and 1947.2.27.84 according to Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 121. Type locality: "in Malabar and Travancore, in the Anamallays [= Anamallai] and at Sevagherry [= Sivagiri]", Kerala, India.

Rana beddomii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 55.

Rana (Discodeles) beddomi — Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 238.

Indirana beddomii — Laurent, 1986, in Grassé and Delsol (eds.), Traite de Zool., 14: 761.

Ranixalus beddomii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 69.

Indirana beddomii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 175-176.

Rana (Discodeles) beddomii — Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 194.

English Names

Beddome's Indian Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 83).

Beddome's Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64).

Beddome's Leaping Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 191).

Distribution

Forests of the Western Ghats in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, southern India.

Comment

See account (with Rana brachytarsus in synonymy) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 114. See accounts (as Rana beddomi) by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 422, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 89. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 121-122, provided range, systematic comments on misidentifications in the literature, and a taxonomic bibliography. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 191-193, provided an account.

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