Polypedates teraiensis (Dubois, 1987)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Polypedates > Species: Polypedates teraiensis

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax teraiensis Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 81–82. Holotype: MNHNP 1983.1103, by original designation. Type locality: "Belberi, 210 m, Est-Népal".

Polypedates teraiensis — Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1122.

Polypedates (Polypedates) teraiensis — Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 256, by implication.

Common Names

Common Tree Frog (Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 49).

Six-lined Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67 [as Polypedates leucomystax]).

Terai Tree Frog (Polypedates leucomystax teraiensis: Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67).

Terai Treefrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 44). 

Perching Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 170 [as Polypedates leucomystax]).

Teraiensis Whipping Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 12).

Distribution

Eastern Nepal, Bhutan, and eastern and peninsular and northeastern India (West Bengal, Odisha, Meghalaya, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, and Sikkim; also reported for Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh), and Bangladesh into mainland Myanmar (Bago, Kayah, Sagaing, Yangon) and peninsular Myanmar (Tanintharyi), and into western Yunnan, China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, People's Republic of, India, Myanmar, Nepal

Comment

Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 49, provided a brief account for northeastern India. The separation of this nominal species has not been well-documented from Polypedates leucomystax and eastern limit of the range has not be documented with respect to the western limit of Polypedates leucomystax . Further, the name (DRF) Rhacophorus maculatus himalayensis Annandale, 1912, from Assam (not treated by Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 49) could threaten the priority of Polypedates teraiensis (Dubois, 1987). Sarkar, Biswas, and Ray, 1992, State Fauna Ser., 3: 91–92, provided a brief account (as Polypedates leucomystax) for West Bengal, India. Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1117–1125, provided a specific locality for Nagaland, northeastern India. Devi and Shamungou, 2006, J. Exp. Zool. India, 9: 317–324, provided a record for Manipur, northeastern India. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 93–94, provided systematic notes, access to literature, and range. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 19, doubted records (as Polypedates leucomystax) from Karnataka, India, although Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 161–163, reported the species from throughout peninsular India as far west as Gujarat. Choudhury, Hussain, Buruah, Saikia, and Sengupta, 2002, Hamadryad, 26: 277, commented on the Indian population (as Polypedates leucomystax). Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 170–171, and Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 309, provided brief accounts (as Polypedates leucomystax) for the Indian population. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 73, for brief account (as Polypedates leucomystax). Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Chakravarty, Bordoloi, Grosjean, Ohler, and Borkotoki, 2011, Alytes, 27: 85–115, discussed tadpole morphology and provided a staging table. Gogoi and Sengupta, 2017, Das (ed.), Diversity Ecol. Amph. India: 33–48, compared this species with Polypedates leucomystax, Polypedates himalayensis, and Polypedates maculatus. Tshewang and Letro, 2018, J. Threatened Taxa, 10: , reported the species from Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park in central Bhutan. Purkayastha, Khan, and Roychoudhury, 2020, in Roy et al. (eds.), Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource use and Conservation, Environmental Science and Engineering: 225–233, provided a record for Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary, Tripura, India. See comments by Hakim, Trageser, Ghose, Das, Rashid, and Rahman, 2020, Check List, 16: 1239–1268, who reported the species from Lawachara National Park, Sylhet Division, northeastern Bangladesh. Khatiwada, Wang, Zhao, Xie, and Jiang, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 1–35, discussed the genetics of the Nepal population. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 44, briefly discussed habitat, range, and identification in Myanmar. Rabbe, Jaman, Alam, Rahman, and Sarker, 2022, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 16: 226–234, provided records for northwestern Bangladesh. Raj, Vasudevan, Aggarwal, Dutta, Sahoo, Mahapatra, Sharma, Janani, Kar, and Dubois, 2023, Alytes, 39–40: 116–119, reported on larval morphology of specimens from Odisha, India. Yu, Kilunda, Wang, Cao, Wu, Duan, Zuo, Zhang, Wu, and Che, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e127029): 1–11, provided a genetically-confirmed (12S) record from Tongbiguan, Gaoligong Mountain, Yingjiang County, southwestern Yunnan, China, 1167 m elevation, near the Myanmar border. Mandal, Tamang, Subba, Rai, De, Pradhan, Deuti, Chaubey, and Tamang, 2025, Proc. Zool. Soc. Calcutta, 78: 148–162, reported on morphology, habitat, and distribution in the Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal, India. See brief account by Che and Yu, 2026, Amph. Mt. Gaoligong: 160–161, for the Mt. Gaoligong area, western Yunnan, China.     

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