Amolops nidorbellus Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010

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

Amolops nidorbellus Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010, Zootaxa, 2408: 33. Holotype: ZSI A-10965, by original designation. Type locality: "Lorü, 25°38′23″N 94°03′31″E, 1575 m asl., Jotsoma village, Kohima district, Nagaland, northeast India".

English Names

Spotted Stinky Torrent Frog (original publication).

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

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Lorü, Jotsoma village, Kohima district, Nagaland, India), 1575 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Most similar to Amolops caelumnoctis, Amolops splendissimus, Amolops kaulbacki, and Amolops viridimaculatus according to the original publication. Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010, Zootaxa, 2408: 43, suggested that the record of Amolops viridimaculatus from Nagaland by Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1117-1125, does not represent this species but should be reexamined. In the Amolops viridimaculatus group of Jiang, Ren, Lyu, Wang, Wang, Lv, Wu, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 574–591. On the basis of morphology Mahony, Nidup, Streicher, Teeling, and Kamei, 2022, Herpetol. J., 32: 142, provisional placed this species in the Amolops viridimaculatus group on the basis of morphology. 

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