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Polypedates insularis Das, 1995
Polypedates insularis Das, 1995, Hamadryad, 20: 20. Holotype: ZSIC A8731, by original designation. Type locality: "circa 2 km E mouth of Galathea River, Galathea National Park, Great Nicobar India".
Polypedates (Polypedates) insularis — Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 256, by implication.
Common Names
Nicobarese Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 112).
Nicobar Tree Frog (Harikrishnan and Vasudevan, 2018, Alytes, 36:259).
Distribution
Nicobar Islands (Great Nicobar, Little Nicobar, and Pilo Milo Island), India, below 500 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: India
Endemic: India
Comment
Most similar to Polypedates leucomystax according to the original publication. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 199-200, provided a brief account. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 93, provided systematic notes, access to literature, and range, and noted that records of Polypedates leucomystax from the Nicobars are based on this species. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 537. Harikrishnan and Vasudevan, 2018, Alytes, 36: 259–260, commented on the distribution and natural history in the Nicobar Islands, India.
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