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Phrynoderma 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; Yadav, Bhosale, Koli, Gopalan, Kadam, Khandekar, and Dinesh, 2024, J. Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 17: 419.
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.
Common Names
Karaavali Skittering Frog (original publication).
Karaavali Pond Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 5).
Distribution
Coastal plain districts of Uttara Kannada, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka, India.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: India
Endemic: 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 placement.
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