Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Nyctibatrachidae > Subfamily: Nyctibatrachinae > Genus: Nyctibatrachus
34 species

Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 113. Type species: Nyctibatrachus major Boulenger, 1882, by subsequent designation of Myers, 1942, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55: 54.

Nannobatrachus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 470. Type species: Nannobatrachus beddomii Boulenger, 1882, by monotypy. Synonymy by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 68.

English Names

Night Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).

Distribution

Western Ghats of southwestern India from southern Gujarat to southern Tamil Nadu.

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: India

Endemic to the political unit: India

Comment

Member of the sufamily Raninae, tribe Ranixalini, according to Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 68 (who subsequently treated this taxon as a subfamily, Ranixalinae; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 335). Dubois, Ohler, and Biju, 2001, Alytes, 19: 57, placed it in their Nyctibatrachinae (Ranidae). See comment under Nyctibatrachidae. Radhakrishnan, Dinesh, and Ravichandran, 2007, Zootaxa, 1595: 31–41, mapped the type localities of members of Nyctibatrachus and provided a key to the species. Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, and Bhatta, 2008, Zootaxa, 1914: 45–56, provided an updated key. Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 1–96, reviewed the genus and provided accounts for all species known at the time.  Gururaja, Dinesh, Priti, and Ravikanth, 2014, Zootaxa, 3796: 33–46, provided a molecular tree for the species as well. Priti, Anisha, and Gururaja, 2021, MtDNA, Part B, 6: 2468–2474, provided a ML tree of Nyctibatrachus species based on 16S mtDNA.  

Contained taxa (34 sp.):

Nyctibatrachus acanthodermis Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
Nyctibatrachus aliciae Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984
Nyctibatrachus anamallaiensis (Myers, 1942)
Nyctibatrachus athirappillyensis Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan, and Biju, 2017
Nyctibatrachus beddomii (Boulenger, 1882)
Nyctibatrachus danieli Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, and Bhatta, 2008
Nyctibatrachus deccanensis Dubois, 1984
Nyctibatrachus gavi Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
Nyctibatrachus grandis Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
Nyctibatrachus humayuni Bhaduri and Kripalani, 1955
Nyctibatrachus indraneili Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
Nyctibatrachus jog Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Manjunatha Reddy, and Gururaja, 2007
Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis (Rao, 1937)
Nyctibatrachus kumbara Gururaja, Dinesh, Priti, and Ravikanth, 2014
Nyctibatrachus major Boulenger, 1882
Nyctibatrachus manalari Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan, and Biju, 2017
Nyctibatrachus mewasinghi Krutha, Dahanukar, and Molur, 2017
Nyctibatrachus minimus Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Roelants, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2007
Nyctibatrachus minor Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984
Nyctibatrachus petraeus Das and Kunte, 2005
Nyctibatrachus poocha Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
Nyctibatrachus pulivijayani Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan, and Biju, 2017
Nyctibatrachus radcliffei Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan, and Biju, 2017
Nyctibatrachus robinmoorei Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan, and Biju, 2017
Nyctibatrachus sabarimalai Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan, and Biju, 2017
Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris Rao, 1920
Nyctibatrachus shiradi Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus Rao, 1937
Nyctibatrachus tunga Pavan Kumar, Vishwajith, Anisha, Dayananda, Gururaja, and Priti, 2022
Nyctibatrachus vasanthi Ravichandran, 1997
Nyctibatrachus vrijeuni Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011
Nyctibatrachus webilla Garg, Suyesh, Sukesan, and Biju, 2017

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