Feihyla shyamrupus (Chanda and Ghosh, 1989)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Feihyla > Species: Feihyla shyamrupus

English Names

Hornbill Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).

Shyamrup's Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 89; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 91).

Shyamrup's Bubble-nest Frog (Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 45; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15). 

Distribution

Known  from the type locality (Namdapha Biosphere Reserve) and Namdapha Tiger Reserve (Changland District), Arunachal Pradesh, India (in region claimed by China); expected in adjacent Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Endemic: India

Comment

See Dubois, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 7, for correction of statements in the literature regarding this species as well as the suggestion that this taxon might not be a member of Philautus. Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 58, made the transfer with additional comments on the taxonomic position of this species. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 167-168, and Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 302, provided brief accounts (as Philautus shyamrupus). Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 91-92, provided a brief characterization and a photograph. See account by Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 45–47.

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