Raorchestes nerostagona (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005)
Philautus nerostagona Biju and Bossuyt, 2005, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 88: 175. Holotype: BNHM 4244, by original designation. Type locality: "at an altitude of 1000 m asl, from Kalpatta, 11° 38′ N, 76° 08′ E, North of the Palghat Gap, Wayanad district, Kerala, India".
Pseudophilautus nerostagona — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional change by implication.
Raorchestes nerostagona — Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120. By implication.
English Names
Kalpatta Yellow Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 106).
Distribution
Sultanbathery--Kalpatta--Mananthavady triangle in the Wayanad district, Kerala, India, ca. 1000 m elevation.
Comment
Vasudevan, Chaitra, and Aggarwal, 2007, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 92: 281-282, criticised aspects of the original publication and doubted the generic assignement of this species. 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: 528. Biju and Bossuyt, 2009, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 155: 374-444 [428-429], provided an account, distribution map, and discussed relationships.
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