Astrobatrachus kurichiyana Vijayakumar, Pyron, Dinesh, Torsekar, Srikanthan, Swamy, Stanley, Blackburn, and Shanker, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Nyctibatrachidae > Subfamily: Astrobatrachinae > Genus: Astrobatrachus > Species: Astrobatrachus kurichiyana

Astrobatrachus kurichiyana Vijayakumar, Pyron, Dinesh, Torsekar, Srikanthan, Swamy, Stanley, Blackburn, and Shanker, 2019, PeerJ, 7(e6457): 9. Holotype: ZSI/WRC/A/2131, by original designation. Type locality: "Kurichiyarmala (11.602807° N 75.968025° E, alt.1420 m), Wayanad Plateau, W[estern] G[hats]", Kerala, India.  Zoobank publication registration: 5ADE399C-37CC-4821-BD81-15F420731BB7

English Names

Starry Dwarf Frog (original publication). 

Starry Dwarf Triangle Disk Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 8).

Distribution

Known only from the Kurichiyarmala District on the Wayand Plateau on the Western Ghats escarpment, Kerala, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

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