Platymantis navjoti Diesmos, Scheffers, Mallari, Siler, and Brown, 2020

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ceratobatrachidae > Subfamily: Ceratobatrachinae > Genus: Platymantis > Species: Platymantis navjoti

Platymantis (Tirahanulap) navjoti Diesmos, Scheffers, Mallari, Siler, and Brown, 2020, Zootaxa, 4830: 578. Holotype: PNM 9057, by original designation. Type locality: "montane forest at an elevation of 900 m above sea level on Nacolod mountain range, Sitio Puti, Barangay San Juan, Municipality of Sogod, Southern Leyte Province, Leyte Island, Philippines (10.45086º N, 125.07075º E; WGS 84)." Zoobank publication registration: 2E97FDD2-1779-4858-A6F7-F0F137440B69

English Names

Navjot Sodhi’s Cloud Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Currently known only from (1) two localities in the Nacolod mountain range in the southern region of Leyte Island, (2) in the mountains around Ormoc City at the northern part of the same island, as well as (3) the municipality of San Jose de Buan on the north-central montane part of Samar Island, Philippines. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

In the Platymantis hazelae group according to the original publication. The call was also detailed in the original publication. 

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