Nyctibatrachus jog Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Nyctibatrachidae > Subfamily: Nyctibatrachinae > Genus: Nyctibatrachus > Species: Nyctibatrachus jog

Nyctibatrachus jog Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 42. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC/V/A/796, by original designation. Type locality: "Jog Falls, Mavingundi, Shimoga district, Karnataka state", India.

English Names

Jog's Night Frog (original description).

Jog Wrinkled Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 9).

Distribution

Fast-flowing streams in the drainages of the Bedti, Aghanashini, Sharavathi rivers on the western face of the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

In the "northern clade", Nyctibatrachus humayani group, of Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Willaert, Giri, Shouche, and Bossuyt, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 839-847. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 89. Priti, Gururaja, and Ravikanth, 2015, FrogLog, 23: 44–45, compare larval measurements of this species with Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis and Nyctibatrachus kumbara. Priti, Anisha, and Gururaja, 2021, MtDNA, Part B, 6: 2468–2474, employed DNA barcoding to enhance understanding of the range, and provided a ML tree of Nyctibatrachus based on 16S mtDNA.  

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