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. 

Common 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).

Dudhwa Pigmy Tree Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 12).

Distribution

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

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Likely/Controversially Present: Nepal

Endemic: India

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. Raj, Vasudevan, Aggarwal, Dutta, Sahoo, Mahapatra, Sharma, Janani, Kar, and Dubois, 2023, Alytes, 39–40: 99–103, reported on larval morphology of  specimens from Uttarakhand, India.

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