Amolops chanakya

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Amolops
Species: Amolops chanakya

Name

Amolops chanakya Saikia, Laskar, Dinesh, Shabnam & Sinha, 2022: 250

• Holotype: V/A/NERC/ZSI 1771, adult ♂, collected by Bikramjit Sinha and party on 13 March 2018.
• Type locality: “Chakpa Village (N 27.422089; E 92.2190308; alt.: 1794 m), Dirang, West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India”.

References

Primary references

• Saikia, B., Laskar, M.A., Dinesh, K.P., Shabnam, A. & Sinha, B. 2022. Description of two new species of Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India under the morphological ‘Viridimaculatus species group’. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122(3): 247–266. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v122/i3/2022/169417 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Chanakya’s Cascade Frog