Indirana sarojamma Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranixalidae > Genus: Indirana > Species: Indirana sarojamma

Indirana sarojamma Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9278. Holotype: BNHS 5981, by original designation. Type locality: "India: Kerala: Ponmudi Reserve Forest (8.7360N & 77.1410E, elevation 879m), Kerala, India". Zoobank publication registration: 0AD3BF63-ECF2-433F-A47F-5F96B15D3725

English Names

Sarojamma's Leaping Frog (original designation; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Distribution

Known only from  south of Palghat gap in the Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala state, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

 Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9278–9276, placed this in the Indirana beddomii group. See brief account by Garg and Biju, 2016, PLoS One, 11(11:e0166326): 18–19.

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