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Microhyla laterite Seshadri, Singal, Priti, Ravikanth, Vidisha, Saurabh, Pratik, and Gururaja, 2016
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. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:321B8493-CD5C-4774-B664-6D6A36EAB0B2
English Names
Laterite Narrow-mouthed Frog (original publication).
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.
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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