Microhyla kodial Vineeth, Radhakrishna, Godwin, Anwesha, Rajashekhar, and Aravind, 2018

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Microhyla > Species: Microhyla kodial

Microhyla kodial Vineeth, Radhakrishna, Godwin, Anwesha, Rajashekhar, and Aravind, 2018, Zootaxa, 4420: 156. Holotype: NCBS-AY587, by original designation. Type locality: "marshy areas in Baikampady, Mangaluru, Dakshina Kannada District, Karnataka, India (12.9518° N, 74.8089° E; alt 6 m amsl)". Zoobank publication registration: 2173C1AB-6BCC-46A7-ABB1-F08EB2857B22

English Names

Mangaluru Narrow-mouthed Frog (original publication). 

Mangaluru Chorus Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 7).

Distribution

Known only from Baikampady and Padil, in Mangaluru city, Karnataka state, India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

In the Microhyla achatina species group of Garg, Suyesh, Das, Jiang, Wijayathilaka, Amarasinghe, Alhadi, Vineeth, Aravind, Senevirathne, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018 "2019", Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 69: 1–71, who provided an account. Gorin, Solovyeva, Hasan, Okamiya, Karunarathna, Pawangkhanant, de Silva, Juthong, Milto, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Haas, Bickford, Das, and Poyarkov, 2020, PeerJ, 8 (e9411): 1–47, placed this species in their Microhyla achatina group. Aravind, Vineeth, Gururaja, and Karanth, 2022, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 123: 1193–1194, discussed the possibility that this species is introduced into South India, although the original range has not been identified. 

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