Micrixalus herrei Myers, 1942

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Micrixalidae > Genus: Micrixalus > Species: Micrixalus herrei

Micrixalus herrei Myers, 1942, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55: 71. Holotype: CAS-SU 7265, by original designation. Type locality: "Kallar, 30 miles northeast of Trivandrum, Travancore, South India". 

Common Names

Kallar Dancing Frog (Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 34). 

Kallar Torrent Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 6).

Distribution

Western Ghats in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu; south of the Shencottah Gap reported from Attayar, Chathankod, Kallar and Ponmudi (Thiruvananthapuram District) and Kovachal (Kollam District) in Kerala state, and Kiriparai (Kanyakumari District) and Puthericharium (Tirunelveli District) in Tamil Nadu state. North of the Shencottah Gap reported from Nilackel, Naranamthodu, and Chelikuzh, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala state, 125 to 420 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Micrixalus fuscus (although retained in the Micrixalus fuscus group) by Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 34, where it had been placed by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 410. Senevirathne, Garg, Kerney, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2016, PLoS One, 11(3: e0151781): 1–18, described the external and internal morphology of the larva. Thomas, Gopalan, and Joseph, 2024, Reptiles & Amphibians, 31(e21567): 1–5, provided genetically confirmed records in Kerala from north of the Shencottah Gap. 

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