Hylarana indica (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hylarana > Species: Hylarana indica

Hylarana indica Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 306. Holotype: BNHS 5847, by original designation. Type locality: "Charmadi Ghats, Chikmagalur dist., Karnataka state, India".  

Indosylvirana indica — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 190. 

Hylarana indica — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 501, by implication.

English Names

Indian Golden-backed Frog (original publication; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 10).

Distribution

Western Ghats north of the Palghat Gap in the states of Karnataka and adjoining regions in Kerala, India, at elevations between 60 and 1145 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

In the Hylarana flavescens group according to the original publication. 

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