Indirana salelkari Modak, Dahanukar, Gosavi, and Padhye, 2015

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranixalidae > Genus: Indirana > Species: Indirana salelkari

Indirana salelkari Modak, Dahanukar, Gosavi, and Padhye, 2015, J. Threatened Taxa, 7: 7495. Holotype: BNHS 5931, by original designation. Type locality: "Tanshikar Spice Farm in Neturlim (15.095° N & 74.211° E; elevation 78m), Sanguem Taluk, South Goa District, Goa, India". Zoobank publication registration: 56DD8B89-0C01-498F-92C6-177BA55A5205.

English Names

Netravali Leaping Frog (original publication; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Distribution

Known only from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka, India, north of Palghat gap. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

The sister taxon of Indirana chiravasi according to the original publication.  Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9276–9278, provided a detailed account and placed this in the Indirana beddomii group. See brief account by Garg and Biju, 2016, PLoS One, 11(11:e0166326): 24–25. Sreekumar and Dinesh, 2020, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 120: 33–40, discussed the range in Maharashtra, India, in terms of agro-climatic zones.  

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