Amolops assamensis Sengupta, Hussain, Choudhury, Gogoi, Ahmed, and Choudhury, 2008

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Amolops > Species: Amolops assamensis

Amolops assamensis Sengupta, Hussain, Choudhury, Gogoi, Ahmed, and Choudhury, 2008, Hamadryad, 32: 6. Holotype: ZSIC A 10272, by original designation. Type locality: "Mayeng Hill Reserve Forest, Kamrup District, Assam, north-eastern India".

English Names

Assamese Cascade Frog (Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 40).

Assam Stream Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 67).

Sengupta's Cascade Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 70).

Assam Cascade Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 10).

Distribution

Known only from two localities in Kamrup District, Assam,  and Cherrapunjee, Meghalaya, northeastern India, although expected to have a wider distribution.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Assignment to Amolops based on association of topotypic larvae that were not grown to adulthood; the generic assignment is therefore provisional (DRF). Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 40, provided a brief account for northeastern India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 70, provided a brief characterization and photographs. See comments on habitat and occurrence in Assam, India, by Sengupta, Hussain, Gogoi, Choudhury, Kalita, and Baruah, 2010, Hamadryad, 35: 31. Purkayastha and Basak, 2017, Herpetol. Rev., 48: 806, provided the record for Meghalaya, northeastern India. In the Amolops marmoratus group of Jiang, Ren, Lyu, Wang, Wang, Lv, Wu, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 574–591. Raj, Vasudevan, Aggarwal, Dutta, Sahoo, Mahapatra, Sharma, Janani, Kar, and Dubois, 2023, Alytes, 39–40: 75–78, reported on larval morphology specimens from Assam, India. 

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