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Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Uperodon taprobanicus (Parker, 1934)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Uperodon > Species: Uperodon taprobanicus

Kaloula pulchra taprobanica Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 86. Holotype: BMNH 1905.3.25.138, by original designation; now renumbered 1947.2.10.62, by museum records; redescribed by Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 21. Type locality: "Punduloya, Ceylon, 4,000 ft.", Sri Lanka.

Kaloula taprobanica — Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 30.

Uperodon taprobanicus — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 140.

Common Names

Sri Lankan Bullfrog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 78).

Sri Lankan Kaloula (Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 183; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 52).

Indian Painted Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 118).

Ceylon Kaloula (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 118).

Sri Lankan Painted Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 64).

Common Bullfrog (de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 77).

Painted Globular Frog (Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 19–21).

Painted Balloon Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 8).

Distribution

Southeastern Nepal and northeastern India (including Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, and West Bengal) and Bangladesh south and west to southern Rajasthan, Gujarat, Goa, Kerala, and Andhra Pradesh (India), and Sri Lanka.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka

Comment

Sri Lanka population discussed by Kirtisinghe, 1957, Amph. Ceylon: 78–80. See account by Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 20, and brief account by Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 58–59. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 9, reported this species from the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 158–162, provided an account for Nepalese population but noted that confusion with Kaloula pulchra exists. See Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 141, for Nepal record (as Kaloula pulchra). Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 118–121, provided an account for peninsular India. Reza and Mahony, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 348, provided a record for Madhupur National Park, Bangladesh. Gajbe, 2003, Cobra, Chennai, 52: 17–18, provided a record for Madhya Pradesh, India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 64–65, provided a brief characterization and photographs. de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 77, provided a brief account and color photograph. Bopage, Wewelwala, Krvavac, Jovanovic, Safarek, and Pushpamal, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 173–177, reported the species in lowland forest in the Kanneliya Forest of southwestern Sri Lanka. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 38, for brief account for Nepal, although the identification of this record is suspect. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature of varying completeness. Hasan and Sumida, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 97, provided a range extension in Bangladesh and briefly commented on the range. Wewelwala, Alagiyawadu, Kodituwakku, and Bopage, 2013, Zootaxa, 3716: 98–100, reported on larval morphology. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 84–85, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India. Aditya and Hazra, 2016, Internatl. J. Zool. Stud., 1: 42–44, reporte the species from Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Ravikanth, Narayana, Mohan, and Naresh, 2017, Herpetol. Rev., 48: 121, provided a record for the Eastern Ghats of the state of Telegana, South India. See account by Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 21–23. Dhande and Khandare, 2013, Frog Leg, 19: 5–6, provided a record for Maharashtra, India. Deuti, Sethy, and Ray, 2014, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 114: 125–126, provided a brief account for the population of the Eastern Ghats, India (as Kaloula taprobanica). Sreekumar and Dinesh, 2020, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 120: 33–40, discussed the range in Maharashtra, India, in terms of agro-climatic zones. Khatiwada, Wang, Zhao, Xie, and Jiang, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 1–35, discussed the genetics of the Nepal population. Gayen, Dey, and Roy, 2021, Zoos' Print J., 36: 33–39, reported a record from Durgapur Subdivision, West Bengal, India. Ganesh and Guptha, 2021, J. Anim. Diversity, 3(3): 28, provided records from the Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India. Datta and Hasan, 2021, Reptiles & Amphibians, 28: 242–244, provided a new locality and spot map for the species in Bangladesh. Srinivasulu and Kumar, 2022, J. Threatened Taxa, 14: 21268, reported the species from the state of Telangana, south-central India. Yadav, Bhosale, Gavali, and Sajjan, 2023, Reptiles & Amphibians, 30 (e18994): 1–2, provided a record from Sangli Maharashtra, and a dot map for the species for India and Sri Lanka. Bandgar, Bandgar, Wahurwagh, and Chandane, 2024, Reptiles & Amphibians, 31(e21685): 1–2, provided a record from central Maharashtra, India, and a dot map for India. Pandey, Thiske, Bhatia, Ali, and Damle, 2024, Uttar Pradesh J. Zool., 45: 548–555, reported the species from North Bastar Kanker District, Chhattisgarh state, India. Kumar, 2025, Reptiles & Amphibians, 32(e20267): 1–3, provided records from the states of Bihar and Jarkhand in northeastern India.

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