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Limnonectes ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)
Rana ghoshi Chanda, 1991 "1990", Hamadryad, 15: 16-17. Holotype: ZSIC A8472 (formerly ZSI-KZ 318) according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 110 Type locality: "Khugairk Reserve Forest, Manipur, India (alt. ca. 925 m)".
Occidozyga ghoshi — Dutta, 1992, Hamadryad, 17: 1-13.
Euphlyctis ghoshi — Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 116; Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 110.
Limnonectes ghoshi — Dufresnes, Mahony, Prasad, Kamei, Masroor, Khan, Al-Johany, Gautam, Gupta, Borkin, Melnikov, Rosanov, Skorinov, Borzée, Jablonski, and Litvinchuk, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (2102686): 13.
English Names
Manipur Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).
Ghosh's Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 13; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 28).
Manipur Skittering Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 17).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Khugairk Reserve Forest, Manipur, India); possibly extending into Chin state, Myanmar.
Comment
Related to Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis, Limnonectes corrugatus, and Nanorana sternosignata (all as Rana) according to the original publication. Not addressed by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 305-352. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 113, provided a brief account (as Rana ghoshi). Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 28, provided a brief characterization and illustration. In the Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis group of Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2021, Zootaxa, 4990: 329–353, who noted that the species is known only from a single specimens collected in 1975 and whose status requires confirmation. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 16–17, discussed identification, habitat, and possible range in Myanmar. Dufresnes, Mahony, Prasad, Kamei, Masroor, Khan, Al-Johany, Gautam, Gupta, Borkin, Melnikov, Rosanov, Skorinov, Borzée, Jablonski, and Litvinchuk, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (2102686): 13, transferred the species to the Limnonectes kuhlii species group.
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