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Leptobrachella lateralis (Anderson, 1871)
Ixalus lateralis Anderson, 1871, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 40: 29. Holotype: in ZSI, according to the original description; ZSI 10967, according to Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 33; presumed lost as not located by Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 100-128. Neotype: IASST A.68, by designation of Humtsoe, Bordoloi, Ohler, and Dubois, 2008, Zootaxa, 1921: 28. Type locality: "unknown"; given as "unknown . . . but from the circumstances . . . from some portion of the surrounding region [of Bhamò]" (A. Ohler, personal commun., notes that this discussion was with reference to specimens not part of the collection), Myanmar, by Anderson, 1879 "1878", Anat. Zool. Res.: 845; as Birmah [= Myanmar] by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 103; given as "No loc." by Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 20; restricted in error to western Yunnan [China] by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 180. Neotype from "Nhyatsutchu stream, Wokha district, Nagaland, India (alt. 1315 m; near 26° 06′ N, 94° 16′ E)". Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 31, discussed the location of Bhamò.
Megophrys lateralis — Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 180. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.
Megophrys (Megophrys) lateralis — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.
Panophrys lateralis — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) lateralis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.
Xenophrys lateralis — Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 75. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.
Leptolalax (Lalax) lateralis — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 14.
Leptolalax (Lalos) lateralis — Dubois, Grosjean, Ohler, Adler, and Zhao, 2010, Zootaxa, 2493: 67.
Leptobrachella lateralis — 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
Nagaland Asian Toad (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 40).
Anderson's Toadfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 26).
Nagaland Slender-armed Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 5).
Distribution
Known with any confidence only from the neotype locality in northeastern India (Nagaland) and the surrounding region of Bhamò, Myanmar, possibly into Yunnan, China.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: India, Myanmar
Likely/Controversially Present: China, People's Republic of
Comment
Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 14, discussed briefly the nomenclatural confusion of Ixalus lateralis with Megophrys major and the likelihood that Leptolalax lateralis and Leptolalax pelodytoides are conspecific. Humtsoe, Bordoloi, Ohler, and Dubois, 2008, Zootaxa, 1921: 24-34, discussed the confusing history of the name Ixalus lateralis and designated a neotype.. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted one larval descriptions with illustration in the literature. Ohler, Wollenberg, Grosjean, Hendrix, Vences, Ziegler, and Dubois, 2011, Zootaxa, 3147: 1-83, characterized the species comparatively. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 26, briefly discussed habitat and range in Myanmar.
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