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Raorchestes terebrans (Das and Chanda, 1998)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Raorchestes

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Philautus terebrans Das and Chanda, 1998, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 3: 105. Holotype: USNM 239428, by original designation. Type locality: "Peddavalasa (17°47′ N; 82°16′ E), ca. 1,000 m altitude, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh State, south-eastern India".

Philautus (Philautus) terebrans — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 59.

Pseudophilautus terebrans — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional arrangement and by implication.

Raorchestes terebrans — Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120. By implication.

English Names

Boring Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 110).

Distribution

Region of the type locality in the Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, southeastern India.

Comment

Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 202, provided a brief account.

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