Amolops chakrataensis Ray, 1992

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Amolops > Species: Amolops chakrataensis

Amolops chakrataensis Ray, 1992, Indian J. Forestry, 15: 346. Holotype: ZSI-NRS A-197, by original designation and Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 68; given as ZSI-NRS A-25 by Ray, 1999, Mem. Zool. Surv. India, 18: 18. Type locality: "India. Dehra Dun District, Chakrata, Uttar Pradesh, collected from a hill-stream 14 km northwest of Chakrata on Tuni road, 2100 m", northern India.

English Names

Dehradun Stream Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 68).

Chakrata Cascade Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 10).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality, 14 km northwest of Chakrata, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Redescribed as new by Ray, 1999, Mem. Zool. Surv. India, 18: 18. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 201, provided a brief account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. In the Amolops monticola group of Jiang, Ren, Lyu, Wang, Wang, Lv, Wu, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 574–591.

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