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Das, Abhijit

Two New Species of Cricket Frogs of the Genus Fejervarya bolkay, 1915 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Peninsular India

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Prudhvi Raj ¹, K. P. Dinesh ², Abhijit Das ¹, Sushil K. Dutta ³, Niladri B. Kar ⁴, Pratyush P. Mohapatra ⁵

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1 Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun – 248001, Uttarakhand, IN
2 Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Pune – 411044, Maharashtra, IN
3 Nature Environment and Wildlife Society, Angul, Odisha – 759122, IN
4 P. G. Department of Zoology, North Orissa University, Baripada – 757003, Odisha, IN
5 Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre, Jabalpur – 482002, Madhya Pradesh, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 118, No 1 (2018), Pagination: 1-21

Abstract

The Dicroglossidae frogs of genus Fejervarya Bolkay, 1915 are morphologically cryptic and represented by one of the widespread group of frogs across the tropical Asia comprising about 45 species. Being morphologically cryptic, taxonomic status for many of the species remains uncertain. Recent studies using integrative taxonomic approach have revealed the existence of many novel and hitherto undescribed species. Herewith, we describe two new species of Fejervarya viz. Fejervarya kalinga sp. nov. and Fejervarya krishnan sp. nov. from peninsular India having morphological and phylogenetic distinctness. Detailed morphological descriptions and comparisons with the known congeners along with their systematic relationship inferred from phylogenetic analyses are presented herein. Taxonomic problems within the genus for the peninsular India and the pattern of phylogenetic relationships are also presented.

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Cryptic Species, Eastern Ghats, Fejervarya, India, New Species, Phylogeny, South Asia, Western Ghats.

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A New Species of Sphaerotheca Gunther, 1859 (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Agro Ecosystems of Chota Nagpur Plateau, India

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Vishal Kumar Prasad ¹, K. P. Dinesh ², Abhijit Das ¹, Priyanka Swamy ³, Ajinkya D. Shinde ⁴, Jadhav Bapurao Vishnu ⁵

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1 Wildlife Institute of India, P O Box 18, Chandrabani - 248001, Uttarakhand, IN
2 Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Pune - 411044, Maharashtra, IN
3 Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, Karnataka, IN
4 Biodiversity Research and Conservation Foundation, 73 Gulmohar Colony, ITI Road, Satara - 415002, Maharashtra, IN
5 Department of Zoology, Balasaheb Desai College, Patan, Satara - 415206, Maharashtra, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 119, No 3 (2019), Pagination: 197-210

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Members of the genus Sphaerotheca are known to have the distribution in the low to mid elevation landscapes of South Asia. Most of the descriptions are either from homestead areas or from agro ecosystems except for a couple of species described from the mid elevated forest areas. The taxonomic uncertainties prevalent in the group was attended very recently, limiting the descriptions of five species to India, two species to Nepal and one each to Pakistan and Sri Lanka (one undescribed species from Myanmar). Here a new species assignable to the morphological 'Breviceps group' is described from the agro ecosystems of Jharkhand based on a combination of morphological, phylogenetic and geographical studies using integrated taxonomic approach. Besides, the distribution status of Sphaerotheca pashchima is discussed and the possibility of a new species occurring in Myanmar is pointed out.

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Agro Ecosystem, Jharkhand, New Species, Plateau, Sphaerotheca.

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Two New Species of Cricket Frogs of the Genus Fejervarya bolkay, 1915 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Peninsular India

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A New Species of Sphaerotheca Gunther, 1859 (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Agro Ecosystems of Chota Nagpur Plateau, India

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