Theloderma nagalandense Orlov, Dutta, Ghate, and Kent, 2006

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Theloderma > Species: Theloderma nagalandense

Theloderma nagalandensis Orlov, Dutta, Ghate, and Kent, 2006, Russ. J. Herpetol., 13: 162. Holotype: MCZMI/Anura Type/1, by original designation. Type locality: "Tseminyu village, 30 km north of Kohima, Nagaland, India (1421 m elevation)".

Theloderma nagalandense — Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 122. Correction of gender of species name.

Theloderma (Theloderma) nagalandense — Poyarkov, Orlov, Moiseeva, Pawangkhanant, Ruangsuwan, Vassilieva, Galoyan, Nguyen, and Gogoleva, 2015, Russ. J. Herpetol., 22: 276.

English Names

Nagaland Treefrog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 122).

Nagaland Warty Tree Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15). 

Distribution

Known from three localities, (1) the type locality (Tseminyu village, 30 km north of Kohima, Nagaland, 1421 m elevation), (2) ca. 297 km northeast at Reiek (1196 m elevation), Mamit District, Mizoram, and (3) Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve, Changlang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India. northeastern India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

In the subgenus Theloderma, Theloderma leporosum species group of Poyarkov, Orlov, Moiseeva, Pawangkhanant, Ruangsuwan, Vassilieva, Galoyan, Nguyen, and Gogoleva, 2015, Russ. J. Herpetol., 22: 276. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Lalmuansanga, Hmar, Lalbiakzuala, Lalrinsanga, and Lalremsanga, 2020, Herpetol. Rev., 51: 270, provided the record from Reiek, Mizoram, India, and discussed the range. Variya, Pansa, Yomcha, and Lalremsanga, 2023, Herpetol. Rev., 54: 240–241, provided, along with a brief natural history note, a record from Changlang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India. 

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