Nyctibatrachus tunga Pavan Kumar, Vishwajith, Anisha, Dayananda, Gururaja, and Priti, 2022

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

Nyctibatrachus tunga Pavan Kumar, Vishwajith, Anisha, Dayananda, Gururaja, and Priti, 2022, Zootaxa, 5209: 75. Holotype: BNHS 6102, by original designation. Type locality: "along a stream inside a coffee plantation at Siddaramata village, Koppa Taluk, Chikkamagaluru District, Karnataka State, India (. . . , 13.61083°N, 75.39847°E, 721m amsl)". Zoobank publication registration: 9E847568-954F-44A1-A199-7EFF117A876F

English Names

Tunga River Night Frog (original publication). 

Tunga Wrinkled Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 9).

Distribution

Higher elevations of the Tunga River drainage (ca. 699 to 721 m elevation) in Chikkamagaluru District, Karnataka, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

The sister taxon of Nyctibatrachus shiradi, according to the original publication, where comparative adult and larval morphology, mtDNA markers, bioacoustics, distribution, and natural history were summarized. 

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