Mercurana myristicapalustris Abraham, Pyron, Ansil, Zachariah, and Zachariah, 2013

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Mercurana > Species: Mercurana myristicapalustris

Mercurana myristicapalustris Abraham, Pyron, Ansil, Zachariah, and Zachariah, 2013, Zootaxa, 3640: 183. Holotype: TNHM 12.6.18.69, by original designation. Type locality: "from bushes at the periphery of a temple compound, Arippa (8.8392N, 77.0314E, altitude approximately 184m ASL), near Kulathupuzha Reserve Forest, Kollam district, Kerala, India."

English Names

Myristica Lowland Tree Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 12).

Distribution

Lowland swampy areas of the western foothills of the Agasthyamalai Hill Range north to the Vazhachal Reserve Forest, Kerala, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

 Gopalan, Sanil, and Evans, 2020, Reptiles & Amphibians, 27: 446–449, provided a record for Vazhachal Reserve Forest, Kerala, India, and provided a dot map of know localities. 

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