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Issue: Vol. 1914 No. 1: 24 Oct. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-10-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1914.1.3
Page range: 45–56
Abstract views: 106
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Nyctibatrachus Boulenger (Amphibia: Anura: Nyctibatrachidae) from the surroundings of Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India

Western Ghats Field Research Station (WGFRS), Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Calicut – 673 006, Kerala, India
Western Ghats Field Research Station (WGFRS), Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Calicut – 673 006, Kerala, India
Department of Biology, BASE, Basavanagudi, Bangalore 560 004, India
Amphibia Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary Nyctibatrachus Western Ghats

Abstract

A new species of Indian nyctibatrachid frog, Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis sp. nov. (Amphibia: Anura), is described from the montane Shola forests of Dattatreya Peeta, Bhadra Wildlife sanctuary, Karnataka, southwestern India, on the basis of unique combination of characters: head wider than long; skin on the dorsum highly wrinkled with transverse corrugated folds; three discontinuous longitudinal folds, one dorsolaterally and two laterally; webbing on toes medium (3/ 4 th ); two yellowish bands on the dorsolateral area, prominent from sub-adult to adult stage; femoral glands present. The largest specimen in the type series has a snout-vent length of 41.0 mm. A revised key to the species of Nyctibatrachus is provided.

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