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Microhyla chakrapanii Pillai, 1977
Microhyla chakrapanii Pillai, 1977, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 86: 135. Holotype: ZSI-SRS VA/770 according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 105. Type locality: "Mayabunder (east of Burma temple), North Andamans", India.
Microhyla (Microhyla) chakrapanii — Dubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 3.
English Names
Mayabunder Rice Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).
Chakrapani's Narrow-mouthed Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 54).
Bilateral Banded Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 39).
Distribution
Andaman Islands of India; recorded from North Andaman, Middle Andaman, South Andaman, Rutland, Little Andaman, Long Island, and Neil Island.
Comment
Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 39, provided a brief account. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 59, suggested that the species closely resembles Microhyla achatina, Microhyla heymonsi, Microhyla palmipes, and Microhyla superciliaris. Harikrishnan and Vasudevan, 2018, Alytes, 36: 244, commented on the distribution and natural history in the Andaman Islands, India. In the Microhyla fissipes species group of Garg, Suyesh, Das, Jiang, Wijayathilaka, Amarasinghe, Alhadi, Vineeth, Aravind, Senevirathne, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018 "2019", Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 69: 1–71, who provided an account. Gorin, Solovyeva, Hasan, Okamiya, Karunarathna, Pawangkhanant, de Silva, Juthong, Milto, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Haas, Bickford, Das, and Poyarkov, 2020, PeerJ, 8 (e9411): 1–47, placed this species in their Microhyla fissipes group.
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