Sphaerotheca breviceps
Appearance
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Anura |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Dicroglossidae
Subfamilia: Dicroglossinae
Genus: Sphaerotheca
Species: Sphaerotheca breviceps
Name
[edit]Sphaerotheca breviceps (Schneider, 1799)
- Lectotype: ZMB 55005, ♂. [designated by Dahanukar, Sulakhe & Padhye (2017: 10280)]
- Type locality: “Indes orientales”, probably from “Tranquebar [=Tharangambadi]”, Tamil Nadu (11°02′N, 79°51′ E), according Dubois (1983: 164).
- Paralectotype: ZMB 3351, same data as the lectotype.
Combinations
[edit]- Rana breviceps Schneider, 1799: 140 [original combination]
- Systoma breviceps — Tschudi, 1838: 86 [subsequent combination]
- Pyxicephalus breviceps — Günther, 1864: 411 [subsequent combination]
- Rana (Tomopterna) breviceps — Boulenger, 1920: 102 [subsequent combination]
- Tomopterna breviceps — Deckert, 1938: 142 [subsequent combination]
- Tomopterna (Sphaerotheca) breviceps — Dubois, 1987: 57 [subsequent combination]
- Sphaerotheca breviceps — Dubois, 1999: 8 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]- Rana swani Myers & Leviton in Leviton, Myers & Swan, 1956: 7 [synonymised by Dubois (2004: 178)]
- Holotype: CAS-SU 15371, adult ♂, collected by Lawrence W. Swan on 22 June 1954.
- Type locality: “Dharan, eastern Nepal, at an altitude of 1000 feet”.
- Sphaerotheca magadha Prasad, Dinesh, Das, Swamy, Shinde & Vishnu, 2019: 198 [synonymy by Jablonski, Masroor & Hofmann (2021: 7)]
- Holotype: ZSI/WRC/A/2178, adult ♂, collected by Vishal Kumar Prasad and team in July 2015.
- Type locality: “semi urbanized agricultural land of Nawadih village (N 24.4179; E 85.4680, 380 meters asl), Koderma, Jharkhand”, India.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Schneider, J.G. 1799. Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae. Fasciculus primus, continens Ranas, Calamitas, Bufones, Salamandras et Hydros in genera et species descriptos notisque suis distinctos. Frommani: Jenae. 264 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Leviton, A.E., Myers, G.S. & Swan, L.W. 1956. Zoological results of the California Himalayan Expedition to Makalu, eastern Nepal. 1. Amphibians and reptiles. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Museum of Stanford University 1: 1–18. Reference page.
- Dahanukar, N., Sulakhe, A. & Padhye, A. 2017. Identity of Sphaerotheca pluvialis (Jerdon, 1853) and other available names among the burrowing frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae) of South Asia. Journal of Threatened Taxa 9(6): 10269–10285. DOI: 10.11609/jott.3358.9.6.10269-10285 Reference page.
- Prasad, V.K., Dinesh, K.P., Das, A., Swamy, P., Shinde, A.D. & Vishnu, J.B. 2019. A new species of Sphaerotheca Gunther, 1859 (Amphibia: Anura : Dicroglossidae) from the agro ecosystems of Chota Nagpur Plateau, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119(3): 197–210. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/132173 Reference page.
- Jablonski, D., Masroor, R. & Hofmann, S. 2021. Revisited molecular phylogeny of the genus Sphaerotheca (Anura: Dicroglossidae): The biogeographic status of northernmost populations and further taxonomic changes. Diversity 13(5): 216. DOI: 10.3390/d13050216 Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Ohler, A., Khan, M.S., van Dijk, P.P., Wogan, G., Dutta, S., Inger, R.F., Kumar Shrestha, T., Manamendra-Arachchi, K. & de Silva, A. 2004. IUCN: Sphaerotheca breviceps (Least Concern) (errata version published in 2016). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58755A86145885. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58755A11837725.en. Accessed on 03 November 2022.
Vernacular names
[edit]English: Indian Burrowing Frog