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Lankanectes Dubois and Ohler, 2001
2 species
Lankanectes Dubois and Ohler, 2001, Alytes, 19: 85. Type genus: Rana corrugata Peters, 1863, by original designation.
English Names
Sri Lanka Wart Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99).
Distribution
Submontane western, central, and southern Sri Lanka.
Comment
See comment under Lankanectes corrugatus. Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217–1231, placed this taxon phylogenetically as the sister taxon of Nyctibatrachus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, confirmed this result.
Contained taxa (2 sp.):
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