Raorchestes rezakhani Al-Razi, Maria, and Muzaffar, 2020

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Raorchestes > Species: Raorchestes rezakhani

Raorchestes rezakhani Al-Razi, Maria, and Muzaffar, 2020, ZooKeys, 927: 135. Holotype: JnUZool-A0419, by original designation. Type locality: "Lawachara National Park, Kamalgonj, Moulavibazar, Bangladesh (24°20.746'N, 91°47.945'E, ca. 59 m a.s.l., . . .)".  http://zoobank.org/CDDA555B-9B29-4D94-B5E6-BA560ECD8DB3 

English Names

Reza Khan's Bush Frog (original publication). 

Lawachara Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 14).

Distribution

Currently known from emi-evergreen froests at the type locality in Lawachara National Park, Kamalgonj, Moulavibazar and from Adampur, Rjkandhi Reserved Forest, Kamalgonj, Moulavibazar, both in northeastern Bangladesh, and from there to the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, India

Comment

 See comments by Hakim, Trageser, Ghose, Das, Rashid, and Rahman, 2020, Check List, 16: 1239–1268, who reported the species from Lawachara National Park, Sylhet Division, northeastern Bangladesh. See comments by Hakim, Trageser, Ghose, Das, Rashid, and Rahman, 2020, Check List, 16: 1239–1268. Decemson, Gouda, Lalbiakzuala, Lalmuansanga, Hmar, Mathipi, and Lalremsanga, 2021, J. Threatened Taxa, 13: 17918–17929, provided a record from Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. 

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