Sphaerotheca breviceps

Taxonavigation

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

Sphaerotheca breviceps (Schneider, 1799)

Lectotype: ZMB 55005, ♂. [designated by Dahanukar, Sulakhe & Padhye (2017: 10280)]
Type locality: “Indes orientales”, probably from “Tranquebar [=Tharangambadi]”, Tamil Nadu (11°02′N, 79°51′ E), according Dubois (1983: 164).
Paralectotype: ZMB 3351, same data as the lectotype.

Rana breviceps Schneider, 1799: 140 [original combination]
Systoma breviceps — Tschudi, 1838: 86 [subsequent combination]
Pyxicephalus breviceps — Günther, 1864: 411 [subsequent combination]
Rana (Tomopterna) breviceps — Boulenger, 1920: 102 [subsequent combination]
Tomopterna breviceps — Deckert, 1938: 142 [subsequent combination]
Tomopterna (Sphaerotheca) breviceps — Dubois, 1987: 57 [subsequent combination]
Sphaerotheca breviceps — Dubois, 1999: 8 [subsequent combination]

Rana swani Myers & Leviton in Leviton, Myers & Swan, 1956: 7 [synonymised by Dubois (2004: 178)]
- Holotype: CAS-SU 15371, adult ♂, collected by Lawrence W. Swan on 22 June 1954.
- Type locality: “Dharan, eastern Nepal, at an altitude of 1000 feet”.

Sphaerotheca magadha Prasad, Dinesh, Das, Swamy, Shinde & Vishnu, 2019: 198 [synonymy by Jablonski, Masroor & Hofmann (2021: 7)]
- Holotype: ZSI/WRC/A/2178, adult ♂, collected by Vishal Kumar Prasad and team in July 2015.
- Type locality: “semi urbanized agricultural land of Nawadih village (N 24.4179; E 85.4680, 380 meters asl), Koderma, Jharkhand”, India.

Schneider, J.G. 1799. Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae. Fasciculus primus, continens Ranas, Calamitas, Bufones, Salamandras et Hydros in genera et species descriptos notisque suis distinctos. Frommani: Jenae. 264 pp. BHL Reference page.
Leviton, A.E., Myers, G.S. & Swan, L.W. 1956. Zoological results of the California Himalayan Expedition to Makalu, eastern Nepal. 1. Amphibians and reptiles. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Museum of Stanford University 1: 1–18. Reference page.
Dahanukar, N., Sulakhe, A. & Padhye, A. 2017. Identity of Sphaerotheca pluvialis (Jerdon, 1853) and other available names among the burrowing frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae) of South Asia. Journal of Threatened Taxa 9(6): 10269–10285. DOI: 10.11609/jott.3358.9.6.10269-10285 Reference page.
Prasad, V.K., Dinesh, K.P., Das, A., Swamy, P., Shinde, A.D. & Vishnu, J.B. 2019. A new species of Sphaerotheca Gunther, 1859 (Amphibia: Anura : Dicroglossidae) from the agro ecosystems of Chota Nagpur Plateau, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119(3): 197–210. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/132173 Reference page.
Jablonski, D., Masroor, R. & Hofmann, S. 2021. Revisited molecular phylogeny of the genus Sphaerotheca (Anura: Dicroglossidae): The biogeographic status of northernmost populations and further taxonomic changes. Diversity 13(5): 216. DOI: 10.3390/d13050216 Reference page.

Ohler, A., Khan, M.S., van Dijk, P.P., Wogan, G., Dutta, S., Inger, R.F., Kumar Shrestha, T., Manamendra-Arachchi, K. & de Silva, A. 2004. IUCN: Sphaerotheca breviceps (Least Concern) (errata version published in 2016). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58755A86145885. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58755A11837725.en. Accessed on 03 November 2022.

English: Indian Burrowing Frog