Leptobrachium aryatium Purkayastha, Dutta, Gogoi, and Sengupta, 2025

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachium > Species: Leptobrachium aryatium

Leptobrachium aryatium Purkayastha, Dutta, Gogoi, and Sengupta, 2025, Zootaxa, 5621: 96. Holotype: ADBUA1085, by original designation. Type locality: "Garbhanga Reserve Forest (26.065892°N, 91.752645°E; elevation 230 m a.s.l.), Kamrup Metropolitan District, Assam, India". Zoobank Publication registration: 8C84F328-8691-4AC2-8853-D4CEFC8EEDE2

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Garbhanga Reserve Forest, Rani Reserve Forest, Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary, Kulsi Reserve Forest, Maayang Hills and Borduar Reserve forest in Kamrup and Kamrup Metro District of Assam and Nongkhyllum Wildlife Sanctuary and Nongpoh in Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya, although expected to have a wider occurrence, extending into Meghalaya, Manipur, and Mizoram, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Comparative acoustics, adult and larval morphology,16S mtDNA markers, and natural history detailed in the original publication, where the new species was suggested to be the sister taxon of Leptobracium sylheticum and Leptobracium smithi, and a dot map was provided. 

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