Sphaerotheca bengaluru

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: Dicroglossidae
Subfamilia: Dicroglossinae
Genus: Sphaerotheca
Species: Sphaerotheca bengaluru

Name

Sphaerotheca bengaluru Deepak, Dinesh, Ohler, Shanker, Channakeshavamurthy & Ashadevi, 2020: 425

• Holotype: ZSI/WRC/A/2284, adult ♂, collected by Deepak and team on 14 July 2019.
• Type locality: “a disturbed semi-urbanized agricultural site around Budumanahalli, (N 13.1876; E 77.5253, 850 msl), Bengaluru, Karnataka”, India.

References

Primary references

• Deepak, P., Dinesh, K.P., Ohler, A., Shanker, K., Channakeshavamurthy, B.H. & Ashadevi, J.S. 2020. A new species of Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the degraded urban ecosystems of Bengaluru, Deccan Plateau, India. Zootaxa 4885(3): 423–436. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.3.6 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Bengaluru Burrowing Frog

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