Sphaerotheca breviceps

Sphaerotheca breviceps

Taxonavigation

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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

Familia: Dicroglossidae
Subfamilia: Dicroglossinae
Genus: Sphaerotheca
Species: Sphaerotheca breviceps

Name

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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.

Combinations

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  • Rana breviceps Schneider, 1799: 140 [original combination]
  • Systoma brevicepsTschudi, 1838: 86 [subsequent combination]
  • Pyxicephalus brevicepsGünther, 1864: 411 [subsequent combination]
  • Rana (Tomopterna) brevicepsBoulenger, 1920: 102 [subsequent combination]
  • Tomopterna brevicepsDeckert, 1938: 142 [subsequent combination]
  • Tomopterna (Sphaerotheca) brevicepsDubois, 1987: 57 [subsequent combination]
  • Sphaerotheca brevicepsDubois, 1999: 8 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

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  • 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.

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Primary references

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Vernacular names

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English: Indian Burrowing Frog