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Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Amolops senchalensis Chanda, 1987 "1986"

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

Rana senchalensis Chanda, 1987 "1986", J. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc., N.S.,, 5: 146. Holotype: ZSIC A8474 (formerly ZSI KZ 982) according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 111. Type locality: "Senchal Lake, Darjeeling district, West Bengal", India. Synonymy by Dubois, 2000, Dumerilia, 4: 33-98 (source is Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 111).

Amolops senchalensis — Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64.

Common Names

Senchal Lake Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).

Senchal Stream Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64).

Senchal Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 133).

Senchal Torrent Frog ( Mahony, Nidup, Streicher, Teeling, and Kamei, 2022, Herpetol. J., 32: 155).

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

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (West Bengal, India) with any certainty, but possibly much more widespread, including some or all of the records from northeastern India and Bangladesh. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Indian populations of Amolops were orphaned from the synonymy of Amolops marmoratus by the work of Wang, Bhattarai, Wu, Che, and Siler, 2020, Zootaxa, 4819, where they had been placed on the basis of morphology by Dubois, 2000, Dumerilia, 4: 33–98 (source is Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 111). Mahony, Nidup, Streicher, Teeling, and Kamei, 2022, Herpetol. J., 32: 142–175, provided an account, discussed and pictured the damaged holotype, previously literature, and suggested that Amolops senchalensis is a member of the Amolops viridimaculatus and not a synonym of Amolops marmoratus. 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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