Microhyla chakrapanii Pillai, 1977

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Microhyla > Species: Microhyla chakrapanii

Microhyla chakrapanii Pillai, 1977, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 86: 135. Holotype: not stated; ZSI-SRS VA/770 according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 105. Type locality: "Mayabunder (east of Burma temple), North Andamans", India.

Microhyla (Microhyla) chakrapaniiDubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 3.

English Names

Mayabunder Rice Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).

Chakrapani's Narrow-mouthed Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 54).

Bilateral Banded Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 39).

Chakrapani's Chorus Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 7).

Distribution

Andaman Islands of India; recorded from North Andaman, Middle Andaman, South Andaman, Rutland, Little Andaman, Long Island, and Neil Island.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

 Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 39, provided a brief account. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 59, suggested that the species closely resembles Microhyla achatina, Microhyla heymonsi, Microhyla palmipes, and Microhyla superciliarisHarikrishnan and Vasudevan, 2018, Alytes, 36: 244, commented on the distribution and natural history in the Andaman Islands, India. In the Microhyla fissipes species group of Garg, Suyesh, Das, Jiang, Wijayathilaka, Amarasinghe, Alhadi, Vineeth, Aravind, Senevirathne, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018 "2019", Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 69: 1–71, who provided an account. Gorin, Solovyeva, Hasan, Okamiya, Karunarathna, Pawangkhanant, de Silva, Juthong, Milto, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Haas, Bickford, Das, and Poyarkov, 2020, PeerJ, 8 (e9411): 1–47, placed this species in their Microhyla fissipes group.  

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