Micrixalus adonis Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Micrixalidae > Genus: Micrixalus > Species: Micrixalus adonis

Micrixalus adonis Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 28. Holotype: BNHS 5655, by original designation. Type locality: "Sevenmallay, Munnar, Idukki dist., Kerala state, India". 

English Names

Beautiful Dancing Frog (original publication). 

Beautiful Torrential Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 6).

Distribution

Western Ghats in the state of Kerala; restricted to between the Palghat Gap and the Shencottah Gap, specifically reported from Sevenmallay; Letchmi Estate, Munnar; Kadalar Estate, Munnar; and Thekkady in Idukki District. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

In the Micrixalus fuscus group of Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 14. 

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