Microhyla laterite Seshadri, Singal, Priti, Ravikanth, Vidisha, Saurabh, Pratik, and Gururaja, 2016

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Microhyla > Species: Microhyla laterite

Microhyla laterite Seshadri, Singal, Priti, Ravikanth, Vidisha, Saurabh, Pratik, and Gururaja, 2016, PLoS One,  11(3: e0149727): 5. Holotype: BNHS 5964, by original designation. Type locality: "from laterite rocks in Kodanga, Herga village, Manipal, Udupi District", Karnataka, India. Zoobank publication registration: BBBDC86C-FE35-4929-A484-62C25C497ACB

English Names

Laterite Narrow-mouthed Frog (original publication). 

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

Distribution

Vicinity of Manipal, Udupi District (between 13.2868°–13.3757° N and 74.7795°–74.8731° E, 50 m elevation) and Konaje, Mangaluru District (12.8183° N, 74.9319° E, 80 m elevation), Karnataka, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

The sister taxon of Microhyla superciliaris according to the original publication, distinguished by molecular, morphometric and bioacoustics evidence.  In the Microhyla zeylanica 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 a summary of the literature. 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 superciliaris group. 

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