Euphlyctis jaladhara Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Shabnam, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2022

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Euphlyctis > Species: Euphlyctis jaladhara

Euphlyctis jaladhara Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Shabnam, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2022, Zootaxa, 5100: 422. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC/2948, by original designation. Type locality: "the surroundings of Thattekad Bird Sanctuary (N 10.1272; E 76.6840), Kerala, India." Zoobank publication registration:3A4F2341-439E-4535-A9DA-603D5AA4C1F9

Euphlyctis (Euphlyctis) jaladhara — Dufresnes, Mahony, Prasad, Kamei, Masroor, Khan, Al-Johany, Gautam, Gupta, Borkin, Melnikov, Rosanov, Skorinov, Borzée, Jablonski, and Litvinchuk, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (2102686): 1.

English Names

Jaladhara Skittering Frog (original publication). 

Jaladhara Skipper Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 3).

Distribution

Throughout the western coastal plains of peninsular India from at least Thattekad (Kerala) north to Mangalore (Karnataka) and nearby oceanic islands of Anjediva. Devagadgudda, and Kurmagadh. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

The sister taxon of Euphlyctis ehrenbergi according to the original publication, where comparative morphology, and molecular markers were detailed. Dufresnes, Mahony, Prasad, Kamei, Masroor, Khan, Al-Johany, Gautam, Gupta, Borkin, Melnikov, Rosanov, Skorinov, Borzée, Jablonski, and Litvinchuk, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (2102686): 1–25, discussed the systematics of this species and its phylogenetic place within the genus, placing it as the sister taxon of Euphlyctis adolfiHegde and Kadadevaru, 2022, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 122: 425–431, reported the species from Anjediva, Devagadgudda, and Kurmagadh Is., off the coast of Karnataka, India. 

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