A taxonomic review of the Night Frog genus Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882 in the Western Ghats, India (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae) with description of twelve new …

SD Biju, I Van Bocxlaer, S Mahony, KP Dinesh… - Zootaxa, 2011 - biotaxa.org
A taxonomic revision of the genus Nyctibatrachus is presented. As a result, we recognize 27
species, 12 of which are new to science and described herein. Three 'lost'species …

Amphibian assemblages in undisturbed and disturbed areas of Kudremukh National Park, central Western Ghats, India

SV Krishnamurthy - Environmental Conservation, 2003 - cambridge.org
Human activities have fragmented amphibian habitats and affected amphibian diversity and
distribution, but the ecology is poorly known. A four-year study assessed the diversity and …

Micro-habitat distribution drives patch quality for sub-tropical rocky plateau amphibians in the northern Western Ghats, India

CJ Thorpe, TR Lewis, S Kulkarni, A Watve… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The importance of patch quality for amphibians is frequently overlooked in distribution
models. Here we demonstrate that it is highly important for the persistence of endemic and …

Amphibian diversity and distribution in Tamhini, northern Western Ghats, India

N Dahanukar, A Padhye - Current science, 2005 - JSTOR
Monitoring and mapping of biological resources is a major concern from the conservation
perspective, since the depletion of biodiversity is an irreversible change. In this study, we …

Two new species of Philautus (Anura, Ranidae, Rhacophorinae) from the Western Ghats, India

F Bossuyt - Amphibia-Reptilia, 2006 - brill.com
The oriental shrubfrog genus Philautus (Anura, Ranidae, Rhacophorinae) is a large group of
direct-developing frogs that still holds several undescribed species on the Indian …

New species of Nyctibatrachus (Anura: Ranidae) from Castle Rock, Karnataka State, Southwest India

I Das, K Kunte - Journal of Herpetology, 2005 - BioOne
A new species of ranid frog of the genus Nyctibatrachus is described from Castle Rock,
Karnataka State, Southwest India. The new species is compared with all known congeners …

Croak, croak, croak: are there more frogs to be discovered in the Western Ghats?

A NA, G KN - Current Science, 2004 - archives.atree.org
Perhaps nothing in the recent past has stirred so much euphoria among the Indian
taxonomists and scientists working on biodiversity as have the few reports on the dramatic …

[PDF][PDF] Amphibia Mundi. 1.2. Recent amphibians: generic and infrageneric taxonomic additions (1981-2002)

A Dubois, RI Crombie, F Glaw - Alytes, 2005 - academia.edu
The present list concerns additions in the taxonomy of NEOBATRACHI (ie, recent
amphibians, taxa represented by at least one species in the currently living fauna of our …

[PDF][PDF] Natural history and reproductive behavior of Nyctibatrachus cf. humayuni (Anura: Ranidae)

WR HEYER, AS RAND, CAG CRUZ… - Herpetological …, 2004 - academia.edu
The genus Nyctibatrachus Boulenger 1882 (family Ranidae) is endemic to the Western
Ghats mountain chain of southwestern India, and comprises ten described species (Dutta …

A new frog species from the central Western Ghats of India, and its phylogenetic position

KV Gururaja, NA Aravind, S Ali, TV Ramachandra… - Zoological Science, 2007 - BioOne
Tropical evergreen forests of Indian subcontinent, especially of the Western Ghats, are
known hot spots of amphibian diversity, where many new anuran species await to be …