Beddomixalus bijui

Taxonavigation edit

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

Holotype: ZSI/WGRC V/A/842, adult ♂, collected by E. Kunhikrishnan and party on 15 May 2010.
Type locality: “the tea plantations of Kadalar tea estate (N 10°07′; E 77°01′, Alt. 1393 m. a.s.l.) near KFDC plantation Idukki district Kerala, India”.
Paratypes (3): V/A/843 and V/A/844, two adult ♂, collected by Sandeep Das and party on 20 May 2010 from the type locality and V/A/849, adult ♀, collected by Anil Zachariah and party on 30 June 2010 from the type locality.

Polypedates bijui Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011: 49 [original combination]
Beddomixalus bijui — Abraham, Pyron, Ansil, Zachariah & Zachariah, 2013: 180 [subsequent combination]

Zachariah, A., Dinesh, K.P., Radhakrishnan, C., Kunhikrishnan, E., Palot, M. & Vishnudas, C. K. 2011. A new species of Polypedates Tschudi (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India. Biosystematica 5(1): 49–53.
Abraham, R.K., Pyron, R.A., Ansil, B.R., Zachariah, A. & Zachariah, A. 2013. Two novel genera and one new species of treefrog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) highlight cryptic diversity in the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 3640(2): 177–199. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.3 Reference page.

English: Kadalar Swamp Frog

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