Indirana semipalmata (Boulenger, 1882)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranixalidae > Genus: Indirana > Species: Indirana semipalmata

Rana semipalmata Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 56. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), including animal figured in pl. 4, fig. 3 in the original and BMNH 1947.2.29.51 according to Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 124. BMNH 1947.2.29.50 designated lectotype by Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9251. Type locality: "Malabar", South India. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality. Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9251, restricted the type locality to "Painavu, Idukki wildlife Sanctuary (10.308° N & 76.742° E, elevation 803 m), Kerala, India". 

Rana (Discodeles) semipalmata — Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 238.

Rana semifulmata — Noble, 1927, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 30: 107. Spelling error.

Indirana semipalmata — Laurent, 1986, in Grassé and Delsol (eds.), Traite de Zool., 14: 761.

Ranixalus semipalmatus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 69.

Indirana semipalmata — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 175–176, by implication.

Rana (Discodeles) semipalmata — Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 194.

Common Names

South Indian Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 87).

Small-handed Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64).

Brown Leaping Frog ( Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 199).

Half-webbed Leaping Frog (Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9251;Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Distribution

Western Ghats of Kerala (and presumably in border areas of Tamil Nadu), South India, both north and south of the Palghat Gap.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

See accounts by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 117, Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 425, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 132-133 (as Rana semipalmata). Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 124-125, provided range, systematic comments, and a taxonomic bibliography. Kuramoto and Joshy, 2001, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 20: 85–95, reported on the advertisement call Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 199-200, provided an account. Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 87, did not include Tamil Nadu in the range. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 113. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 140–141, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India. See account by Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9251–9257, who placed this in their Indirana semipalmata group. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted only two larval descriptions in the literature. See brief account by Garg and Biju, 2016, PLoS One, 11(11:e0166326): 25. Kumar and Sanil, 2019, Mol. Biol. Rep., 46: 5487–5492, reported on polymorphic microsatellites. Gopalan, Nair, Kumar, Merilä, and Sanil, 2012, Herpetol. Notes, 5: 263–273, reported on adult and larval morphology. 

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