Raorchestes graminirupes (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005)
Philautus graminirupes Biju and Bossuyt, 2005, Copeia, 2005: 30. Holotype: BNHM 4265, by original designation. Type locality: "at an altitude of 1020 m above sea level, at 'upper sanatorium' Ponmudi Hill, (approximately 8° 45′ N, 77° 08′ E) in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, India".
Pseudophilautus graminirupes — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional change by implication.
Raorchestes graminirupes — Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120. By implication.
English Names
Ponmudi Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 100).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in Ponmudi, south of the Palghat Gap, southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India, 1030 m elevation.
Comment
Previously confused with Raorchestes signatus (as Philautus) according to 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: 523. Biju and Bossuyt, 2009, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 155: 374-444 [415] provided an account, distribution map, and discussed relationships.
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