Chirixalus dudhwaensis Ray, 1992

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Chirixalus > Species: Chirixalus dudhwaensis

Chirixalus dudhwaensis Ray, 1992, Indian J. Forestry, 15: 260. Holotype: ZSI-NRS A-16, according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 111. Type locality: "near Dudhwa Forest Rest House, Dudhwa National Park (28° 21′- 28° 42′ N, 80° 56′ E), District Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh", India.

Chiromantis dudhwaensis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 367.

Chirixalus dudhwaensis — Chen, Prendini, Wu, Zhang, Suwannapoom, Chen, Jin, Lemmon, Lemmon, Stuart, Raxworthy, Murphy, Yuan, and Che, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 145 (106724): 5. 

English Names

Dudhwa Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 89).

Distribution

Reported from the vicinity of the type locality, Dudhwa National Park and Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh, India, both on the Nepal border where this species is likely to occur.

Comment

Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 200, provided a brief account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Das, Basu, Converse, and Choudhury, 2012, J. Threatened Taxa, 4: 2556, provided a record and photograph for the Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, Bahraich District, Uttar Pradesh, India. 

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