Giant wrinkled frog

Giant wrinkled frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Nyctibatrachidae
Genus: Nyctibatrachus
Species:
N. karnatakaensis
Binomial name
Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis
Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Reddy & Gururaja, 2007[2]
Synonyms

Nyctibatrachus hussaini Krishnamurthy, Reddy & Gururaja, 2001[3]

The giant wrinkled frog (Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis, arguably a junior synonym of N. hussaini)[4] is a species of frogs in the family Nyctibatrachidae endemic to the Western Ghats of India in the Kudremukh region. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]

  1. ^ a b S.D. Biju, Sushil Dutta, M.S. Ravichandran (2004). "Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T58399A11768152. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58399A11768152.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Dinesh, K.P., C. Radhakrishnan, A.H. Manjunatha Reddy and K.V. Gururaja. 2007. Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis nom. nov., a replacement name for the Giant Wrinkled Frog from the Western Ghats. Current Science. 93 (2): 246-250. PDF
  3. ^ Krishnamurthy, SV and Manjunatha, Reddy AH and Gururaja, KV (2001) A new species of frog in the genus Nyctibatrachus (Anura: Ranidae) from Western Ghats, India. Current Science 80(7):887-891. PDF
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