Nyctibatrachus vasanthi Ravichandran, 1997

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Nyctibatrachidae > Subfamily: Nyctibatrachinae > Genus: Nyctibatrachus > Species: Nyctibatrachus vasanthi

Nyctibatrachus vasanthi Ravichandran, 1997, Hamadryad, 22: 9. Holotype: ZSI-SRS 1074, by original designation. Type locality: "Solaipalam Aru (Kakachi), Kalakad Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, south India, altitude ca. 1,120 m above msl. "

Nyctibatrachus pillaii Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 60. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC/V/A/808, by original designation. Type locality: "Kakachi, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu state", India. Synonymy by Abraham, Rao, Zachariah, and Brown, 2022, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 110: 542

English Names

Kalakad Wrinkled Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 67; Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 73).

Pillai's Night Frog (Nyctibatrachus pillaii [no longer recognized]: Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 60).

Kakachi Wrinkled Frog (Nyctibatrachus pillaii [no longer recognized]: Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 9).

Kalakad Wrinkled Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 9).

Distribution

Agasthyamala Range along an elevational range of 800–1700 m, Tamil Nadu and southern Kerala, South India, 700 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 489. Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 73-75, provided an account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. In the "southern clade", sister taxon of the Nyctibatrachus aliciae group, of Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Willaert, Giri, Shouche, and Bossuyt, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 839-847. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 102. Abraham, Rao, Zachariah, and Brown, 2022, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 110: 526–546, reviewed the adult and larval morphological, acoustic, and molecular evidence for the existence of cryptic and not-so-cryptic diversity, found none, and recommended the synonymy of Nyctibatrachus pillaii

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