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Euphlyctis karaavali Priti, Naik, Seshadri, Singal, Vidisha, Ravikanth, and Gururaja, 2016
Euphlyctis karaavali Priti, Naik, Seshadri, Singal, Vidisha, Ravikanth, and Gururaja, 2016, Asian Herpetol. Res., 7: 233. Holotype: BNHS 5989, by original designation. Type locality: "fallow paddy fields inundated with water in Sanikattavillage, Kumta Taluk, Uttara Kannada District", Karnataka, India.
Phrynoderma karaavali — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 237.
Euphlyctis (Phrynoderma) karaavali — 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
Karaavali Skittering Frog (original publication).
Distribution
Coastal plain districts of Uttara Kannada, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka, India.
Comment
Previous confused with Euphlyctis hexadactylus according to the original publication. Kuramoto and Joshy, 2008, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 105: 14–18, described the advertisement call from a population in Karnataka, India, as Euphlyctis hexadactylus. In the Euphlyctis hexadactylus group of Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2021, Zootaxa, 4990: 329–353. Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, and Ghosh, 2021, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 12: 355–361, discussed conservation status, range (including a dot map), morphometrics, and molecular markers. 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.
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