Gracixalus patkaiensis Boruah, Deepak, Patel, Jithin, Yomcha, and Das, 2023

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Gracixalus > Species: Gracixalus patkaiensis

Gracixalus patkaiensis Boruah, Deepak, Patel, Jithin, Yomcha, and Das, 2023, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 73 : 561. Holotype. WII-ADA1353, by original designation. Type locality: "from ~300 m south of Kamala Valley Beat (27°27′34″ N; 96°25′40″ E; elevation 648 m a.s.l.; . . . ), Namdapha, Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh", India. https://zoobank.org/2421026F-ED8A-4302-AA94-3C62BA9AF3BA

Common Names

Patkai Green Tree Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known from three localities in Namdapha National Park, Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India; expected in adjacent Myanmar. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Endemic: India

Comment

This sister taxon of Gracixalus gracilipes according to a mtDNA tree provided in the original publication, along with a discussion of habitat, advertisement call, and comparative morphology. Tajo, Upadhyaya K., Sarmah, Garg, and Biju, 2025, Zootaxa, 5659: 511–535, who provided genetically-confirmed records of the species from Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh, India, a morphological description of those specimens, dot map of distribution, advertisement call, and a molecular tree of Gracixalus based on the 16S rRNA, which placed this species as the sister of Gracixalus seesom.   

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