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Minervarya chilapata Ohler, Deuti, Grosjean, Paul, Ayyaswamy, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2009
Minervarya chilapata Ohler, Deuti, Grosjean, Paul, Ayyaswamy, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2009, Zootaxa, 2209: 45. Holotype: ZSIA 10784, by original designation. Type locality: "Beside rainwater pools alongside forest road inside Mendabari Beat of Chilapata Reserve Forest (26°36′N, 89°24′E), Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal State, India".
Fejervarya chilapata — Dinesh, Vijayakumar, Channakeshavamurthy, Torsekar, Kulkarni, and Shanker, 2015, Zootaxa, 3999: 79.
Minervarya chilapata — Sanchez, Biju, Islam, Hasan, Ohler, Vences, and Kurabayashi, 2018, Salamandra, 54: 115.
English Names
Chilapata Rainpool Frog (Patel and Vyas, 2020, J. Anim. Diversity, 2: 12).
Distribution
Known only from the Chilipata Reserve Forest, Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal, India.
Comment
Records from Gujarat, India, are erroneous according to Patel and Vyas, 2020, J. Anim. Diversity, 2: 12. Garg and Biju, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 345–370, summarized the systematics (morphology and molecular markers) of this member of the Minervarya sahyadris group and mapped its distribution.
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