Minervarya neilcoxi (Garg and Biju, 2017)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Minervarya > Species: Minervarya neilcoxi

Fejervarya neilcoxi Garg and Biju, 2017, Zootaxa, 4277: 482. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC/V/A/951, by original designation. Type locality: "Parambikulam (10°24’36.5” N 76°46’04.6” E, 650 m asl), Palakkad district, Kerala state, India". Zoobank publication registration: 71A18DA8-2AFF-4998-AE87-00D713EC531D

Minervarya neilcoxi — Sanchez, Biju, Islam, Hasan, Ohler, Vences, and Kurabayashi, 2018, Salamandra, 54: 115. 

English Names

Neil Cox’s Burrowing Frog (original publication). 

Neilcoxi Cricket Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 4). 

Distribution

Known only from its type locality Parambikulam, south of Palghat gap in the Western Ghats state of Kerala, southern India.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

In the Fejervarya rufescens group according to the original publication. Garg and Biju, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 345–370, summarized the systematics of this member of the Minervarya rufescens group and mapped its distribution. 

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