Raorchestes sahai (Sarkar and Ray, 2006)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Raorchestes > Species: Raorchestes sahai

Philautus sahai Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 303. Holotype: ZSIC A8500, by original designation. Type locality: "north bank of Noa Dihing River, c. 10 km. north of Gandhigram, . . . . Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India".

Pseudophilautus sahaiLi, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional arrangement and by implication.

Raorchestes sahaiBiju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120, by implication.

English Names

Sahai Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 107).

Gandhigram Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 14).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (10 km north of Gandhigram, Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Similar to Philautus annandalii according to the original publication. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 99-100, provided a brief characterization and a photograph.

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