Raorchestes bobingeri (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005)
Philautus bobingeri Biju and Bossuyt, 2005, Copeia, 2005: 30. Holotype: BNHM 4272, by original designation. Type locality: "at an altitude of 1030 m above sea level, from Ponmudi Hills near 'upper sanatorium' (approximately 8° 45′ N, 77° 08′ E) in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, India".
Pseudophilautus bobingeri — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional change by implication.
Raorchestes bobingeri — Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120.
English Names
Bob Inger's Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 95).
Distribution
Southern Westerm Ghats of southern India: Ponmudi in Kerala and Kakachi and Sengaltheri in Tamil Nadu.
Comment
Possibly most closely related to Raorchestes glandulosus (as Philautus) according to the original publication. Vasudevan, Chaitra, and Aggarwal, 2007, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 92: 281-282, criticised aspects of the original publication. 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: 519. Biju and Bossuyt, 2009, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 155: 374-444 [395-397], provided an account, distribution map, and discussed relationships.
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