Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rhacophorus lateralis Boulenger, 1883, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 12: 162. Holotype: BMNH 1882.2.10.75, according to Das, 2000, Curr. Herpetol., 19: 35. Type locality: "Malabar", India. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) lateralis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 165.

English Names

Small Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 170).

Boulenger's Tree Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 175).

Winged Gliding Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 170).

Small Gliding Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 170).

Distribution

Known only from Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary and surrounding areas, Kerala, and from Virapet District, Srimangala Nadu, South Coorg District, Karnataka State, southern Western Ghats of South India, ca. 800 m elevation.

Comment

Inger and Dutta, 1987 "1986", J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 83 (Suppl.): 135-146, and Das, 2000, Curr. Herpetol., 19: 35-40 (who described two new specimens), resurrected Rhacophorus lateralis from the synonymy of Rhacophorus malabaricus, where it had been placed provisionally in synonymy by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 214. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 175, provided a brief account. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 170-171, 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: 540. Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Zacariya, 2010, J. Threatened Taxa, 2: 986-989, provided a range extension and discussed the range in the Western Ghats of southern India as well as documenting variation in color pattern.

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