Nyctibatrachus aliciae Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Nyctibatrachidae > Subfamily: Nyctibatrachinae > Genus: Nyctibatrachus > Species: Nyctibatrachus aliciae

Nyctibatrachus aliciae Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 414. Holotype: NMNHI (formerly RFI 31300), by original designation; now in RMNHB according to Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 61. Type locality: "Ponmudi, Trivandrum District, Kerala, 359 m elevation", India.

Nyctibatrachus deveni Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 30. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC/V/A/786, by original designation. Type locality: "Kaikatti, Nelliyampathy, Palakkad district, Kerala state", India. Synonymy by Abraham, Rao, Zachariah, and Brown, 2022, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 110: 541. 

Nyctibatrachus periyar Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 56. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC/V/A/806, by original designation. Type locality: "Vallakadavu, Periyar Tiger Reserve, Idukki district, Kerala state", India. Synonymy by Abraham, Rao, Zachariah, and Brown, 2022, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 110: 541.

English Names

Alicia's Night Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 61; Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 16).

Alice's Night Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 218).

Grandison's Wrinkled Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 218).

Deven's Night Frog (Nyctibatrachus deveni, no longer recognized:  Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 30).

Periyar Night Frog (Nyctibatrachus periyar, no longer recognized: Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 56).

Alicia's Wrinkled Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 8).

Deven's Wrinkled Frog (Nyctibatrachus deveni [no longer recognized]: Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 9).

Periyar Wrinkled Frog (Nyctibatrachus periyar [no longer recognized]: Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 9).

Distribution

Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, south of the Palakkad Gap.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 16, provided the range. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 66, provided a brief account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 218-219, provided an account. Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 3029: 16-18, provided an account and redelimited the species diagnosis and its range. In the "southern clade", Nyctibatrachus aliciae group, of Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Willaert, Giri, Shouche, and Bossuyt, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 839-847. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 78 (as Nyctibatrachus deveni on p. 84, and as Nyctibatrachus periyar on p. 95). Abraham, Rao, Zachariah, and Brown, 2022, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 110: 526–546, reviewed the adult and larval morphological, acoustic, and molecular evidence for the existence of cryptic and not-so-cryptic diversity, found none, and recommended the synonymy of Nyctibatrachus deveni and Nyctibatrachus periyarRaj, 2023, J. Threatened Taxa, 15: 24231–24240, reported on larval morphology of Nyctibatrachus cf. periyar

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