Micrixalus spelunca Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

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

Micrixalus spelunca Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 25. Holotype. BNHS 5640, by original designation. Type locality: "Coonoor, Nilgiris dist., Tamil Nadu state, India". 

English Names

Cave Dancing Frog (original publication). 

Nilgiris Torrent Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 7).

Distribution

Known only from its type locality at Coonoor (Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu state, India), which lies north of Palghat Gap in the Western Ghats. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

In the Micrixalus elegans group of Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 14. 

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