Walkerana Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranixalidae > Genus: Walkerana
4 species

Walkerana Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9234. Type species: Ixalus diplostictus Günther, 1876, by original designation. Junior homonym of Walkerana Otte & Perez-Gelabert in Otte, 2009 (insecta) (this earlier name shown to be a nomen nudum by Dubois, 2017, Zootaxa, 4237: 1). Zoobank publication registration: 0AD3BF63-ECF2-433F-A47F-5F96B15D3725 

Sallywalkerana Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9381. Unnecessary replacement name according to Dubois, 2017, Zootaxa, 4237: 1. 

English Names

Mountain Leaping Frogs (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Distribution

Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India. 

Comment

See brief review and discussion of molecular phylogenetics by Garg and Biju, 2016, PLoS One, 11(11:e0166326): 1–36. See nomenclatural discussion by Dubois, 2017, Zootaxa, 4237: 1–16. 

Contained taxa (4 sp.):

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