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Uperodon taprobanicus (Parker, 1934)
Kaloula pulchra taprobanica Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 86. Holotype: BMNH 1905.3.25.138, by original designation; now renumbered 1947.2.10.62, by museum records; redescribed by Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 21. Type locality: "Punduloya, Ceylon, 4,000 ft.", Sri Lanka.
Kaloula taprobanica — Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 30.
Uperodon taprobanicus — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 140.
English Names
Sri Lankan Bullfrog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 78).
Sri Lankan Kaloula (Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 183; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 52).
Indian Painted Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 118).
Ceylon Kaloula (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 118).
Sri Lankan Painted Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 64).
Common Bullfrog (de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 77).
Painted Globular Frog (Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 19–21).
Painted Balloon Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 8).
Distribution
Southeastern Nepal and northeastern India (including Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal) and Bangladesh south and west to Goa, Kerala (India), and Sri Lanka; an apparently isolated population in central Gujurat, India; also reported from Tlangana, south-central India.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Comment
Sri Lanka population discussed by Kirtisinghe, 1957, Amph. Ceylon: 78–80. See account by Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 20, and brief account by Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 58–59. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 9, reported this species from the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 158–162, provided an account for Nepalese population but noted that confusion with Kaloula pulchra exists. See Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 141, for Nepal record (as Kaloula pulchra). Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 118–121, provided an account for peninsular India. Reza and Mahony, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 348, provided a record for Madhupur National Park, Bangladesh. Gajbe, 2003, Cobra, Chennai, 52: 17–18, provided a record for Madhya Pradesh, India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 64–65, provided a brief characterization and photographs. de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 77, provided a brief account and color photograph. Bopage, Wewelwala, Krvavac, Jovanovic, Safarek, and Pushpamal, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 173–177, reported the species in lowland forest in the Kanneliya Forest of southwestern Sri Lanka. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 38, for brief account for Nepal, although the identification of this record is suspect. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature of varying completeness. Hasan and Sumida, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 97, provided a range extension in Bangladesh and briefly commented on the range. Wewelwala, Alagiyawadu, Kodituwakku, and Bopage, 2013, Zootaxa, 3716: 98–100, reported on larval morphology. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 84–85, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India. Aditya and Hazra, 2016, Internatl. J. Zool. Stud., 1: 42–44, reporte the species from Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Ravikanth, Narayana, Mohan, and Naresh, 2017, Herpetol. Rev., 48: 121, provided a record for the Eastern Ghats of the state of Telegana, South India. See account by Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 21–23. Dhande and Khandare, 2013, Frog Leg, 19: 5–6, provided a record for Maharashtra, India. Deuti, Sethy, and Ray, 2014, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 114: 125–126, provided a brief account for the population of the Eastern Ghats, India (as Kaloula taprobanica). Sreekumar and Dinesh, 2020, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 120: 33–40, discussed the range in Maharashtra, India, in terms of agro-climatic zones. Khatiwada, Wang, Zhao, Xie, and Jiang, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 1–35, discussed the genetics of the Nepal population. Gayen, Dey, and Roy, 2021, Zoos' Print J., 36: 33–39, reported a record from Durgapur Subdivision, West Bengal, India. Datta and Hasan, 2021, Reptiles & Amphibians, 28: 242–244, provided a new locality and spot map for the species in Bangladesh. Srinivasulu and Kumar, 2022, J. Threatened Taxa, 14: 21268, reported the species from the state of Telangana, south-central India. Yadav, Bhosale, Gavali, and Sajjan, 2023, Reptiles & Amphibians, 30 (e18994): 1–2, provided a record from Sangli Maharashtra, and a dot map for the species for India and Sri Lanka.
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