Raorchestes bombayensis (Annandale, 1919)
Ixalus bombayensis Annandale, 1919, Rec. Indian Mus., 16: 124. Holotype: ZSIC 18782 according to the originally publication; the number corrected to ZSIC 18287 by Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 112. Type locality: "Castle Rock", N. Canara district, Karnataka, India.
Rhacophorus (Philautus) bombayensis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 79.
Philautus bombayensis — Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 166. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 527.
Philautus (Philautus) bombayensis — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 41.
Pseudophilautus bombayensis — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional change by implication.
Raorchestes bombayensis — Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120. By implication.
English Names
Bombay Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).
Maharashtra Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 95).
Castle Rock Bush Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 151).
Konkan Bush Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 142).
Distribution
Karnataka (Castle Rock and Londa) to Maharashtra (Ambol) in the northern Western Ghats, India, 400-1300 m elevation.
Comment
See Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 18, discussed range. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 151, provided a brief account. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 75, provided relevant literature and range. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 142-143, provided an account. 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 [399-400], provided an account, distribution map, and discussed relationships.
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