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).

Dudhwa Reed Frog (Bhattarai, Neupane, Gautam, Shrestha, Olson, Hogan, and Wright, 2026, J. Threatened Taxa, 18: 28812).

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; also reported from Chitwan National Park, southern Nepal.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India, Nepal

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. Bhattarai, Gautam, Pokheral, and Kandel, 2025, J. Threatened Taxa, 17: 27594–27610, reported the species from Chitwan National Park, southern Nepal. Bhattarai, Neupane, Gautam, Shrestha, Olson, Hogan, and Wright, 2026, J. Threatened Taxa, 18: 28807–28829, discussed the species in the protected areas of the Chitwan-Annapurna region of central Nepal. Bhattarai, Neupane, Gautam, Shrestha, Olson, Hogan, and Wright, 2026, J. Threatened Taxa, 18: 28807–28829, discussed the species in the protected areas of the Chitwan-Annapurna region of central Nepal.

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