Feihyla shyamrupus (Chanda and Ghosh, 1989)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Feihyla > Species: Feihyla shyamrupus

Philautus shyamrupus Chanda and Ghosh, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 215. Holotype: ZSIC A 7944 (formerly ZSI-KZ 313). Type locality: "Hornbill, Namdapha Tiger Reserve and proposed Biosphere Rserve, Arunachal Pradesh", India.

Chirixalus shyamrupus — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 58; Chen, Prendini, Wu, Zhang, Suwannapoom, Chen, Jin, Lemmon, Lemmon, Stuart, Raxworthy, Murphy, Yuan, and Che, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 145 (106724): 5. 

Chiromantis shyamrupus — 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.

Rohanixalus shyamrupus — Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 29. 

Feihyla shyamrupus — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 542, by implication. 

Common Names

Hornbill Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).

Shyamrup's Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 89; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 91).

Shyamrup's Bubble-nest Frog (Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 45; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15). 

Distribution

Known  from the type locality (Namdapha Biosphere Reserve) and Namdapha Tiger Reserve (Changland District), Arunachal Pradesh, India (in region claimed by China); also known from Kothalgoorie in Jorhat District, Dehing Patkai National Park/Jeypore Reserve Forest in Dibrugarh District, Nameri National Park and Balipara Reserve Forest in Sonitpur District, and Borjan in Tinsukia District, Assam India. Expected in adjacent Myanmar.

expected in adjacent Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Endemic: India

Comment

See Dubois, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 7, for correction of statements in the literature regarding this species as well as the suggestion that this taxon might not be a member of Philautus. Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 58, made the transfer with additional comments on the taxonomic position of this species. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 167-168, and Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 302, provided brief accounts (as Philautus shyamrupus). Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 91-92, provided a brief characterization and a photograph. See account by Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 45–47, where comparative morphology and the advertisement call were detailed. Saikia, Hussain, and Purkayastha, 2026, Environm. Conserv. J., 27: 1073–1078, provided new records from Assam, India, and a dot map of the species distribution. Saikia, Hussain, and Purkayastha, 2026, Environm. Conserv. J., 27: 1073–1078, provided genetically confirmed records from from Kothalgoorie in Jorhat District, Dehing Patkai National Park/Jeypore Reserve Forest in Dibrugarh District, Nameri National Park and Balipara Reserve Forest in Sonitpur District, and Borjan in Tinsukia District, Assam India.

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