Leptobrachella khasiorum (Das, Tron, Rangad, and Hooroo, 2010)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachella > Species: Leptobrachella khasiorum

Leptolalax khasiorum Das, Tron, Rangad, and Hooroo, 2010, Zootaxa, 2339: 46. Holotype: ZSI A10955, by original designation. Type locality: "Mawphlang (25°26′80.8″N, 91°44′99.8″E, alt. 1,813 m asl.; datum wgs-84), East Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya State, north-east India".

Leptolalax (Lalos) khasiorum — Dubois, Grosjean, Ohler, Adler, and Zhao, 2010, Zootaxa, 2493: 67.

Leptobrachium nokrekensis Mathew and Sen, 2010 "2009", Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 109: 91-108: 93. Holotype: ZSI-ERS834, by original designation. Type locality: "Didari Kchibama, Nokrek Biosphere Reserve, East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya (N 25° 29′ 0.09″, E 90° 18′ 55.2″, Altitude 1054 m above msl)", northeastern India. Synonymy by Naveen and Sarmah, 2026, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 21: 13. 

Leptolalax nokrekensisDas and Deuti, 2011, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 30: 72.

Leptobrachella khasiorum — Chen, Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Lathrop, Wu, Zhou, Yuan, Jin, Chen, Liu, Nguyen, Nguyen, Duong, Eto, Nishikawa, Matsui, Orlov, Stuart, Brown, Rowley, Murphy, Wang, and Che, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 124: 162, by implication.

Leptobrachella nokrekensis — Chen, Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Lathrop, Wu, Zhou, Yuan, Jin, Chen, Liu, Nguyen, Nguyen, Duong, Eto, Nishikawa, Matsui, Orlov, Stuart, Brown, Rowley, Murphy, Wang, and Che, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 124: 162, by implication. 

Common Names

Khasi Slender-armed Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 5).

Nokrek's Spadefoot Toad (Leptobrachium nokrekensis [no longer recognized]: Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 49).

Nokrek's Slender-armed Frog (Leptobrachella nokrekensis [no longer recognized]: Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 5).

Distribution

Known from subtropical wet forest in the Khasi Hills and East Garo Hills, Meghalaya, northeastern India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Ohler, Wollenberg, Grosjean, Hendrix, Vences, Ziegler, and Dubois, 2011, Zootaxa, 3147: 1-83, characterized the species comparatively. Naveen and Sarmah, 2026, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 21: 13–20, placed Leptobrachium nokrekensis into synonymy based on molecular and morphological evidence and suggested that Leptobrachella tamdil may also be conspecific but did not take that action pending further investigation. 

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