Microhyla sholigari

Microhyla sholigari
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Subfamily: Microhylinae
Genus: Microhyla
Species: M. sholigari
Binomial name
Microhyla sholigari
Dutta and Ray, 2000[2]

Microhyla sholigari is a species of microhylid frog endemic to the Western Ghats in southern India.[1][3]

Description

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The frog was described from the Biligirirangan Hills in South India and is named after the Soliga tribal people living in the forests in and around these hills. The holotype is lodged with the Zoological Survey of India and was collected on the streambed of Bhargavi stream near Doddasampige (12° 27' N, 76° 11'E) at Biligirirangan Hills. Four paratypes were collected near the campus of Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra in the same hills.[4] Its sister species is Microhyla laterite.[5]

Habitat and conservation

This species is associated with riparian vegetation in moist evergreen tropical forest. It is a terrestrial species living in the leaf litter. It is threatened by habitat loss, at present mostly driven by urbanization but in the past by agricultural expansion and wood extraction.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 S.D. Biju, Sushil Dutta, Gajanan Dasaramji Bhuddhe, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Chelmala Srinivasulu (2004). "Microhyla sholigari". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2004: e.T57893A11688938. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Dutta, S. K.; Ray, P. (2000). "Microhyla sholigari, a new species of microhylid frog (Anura: Microhylidae) from Karnataka, India". Hamadryad. 25: 38–44.
  3. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Microhyla sholigari Dutta and Ray, 2000". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Chandal, SK, Das, I & Dubois, A. (2000) Catalogue of Amphibian Types in the Collection of the Zoological Survey of India. Hamadryad 25(2), pp. 100 – 128
  5. ↑ Seshadri, K. S.; Singal, Ramit; Priti, H.; Ravikanth, G.; Vidisha, M. K.; Saurabh, S.; Pratik, M.; Gururaja, Kotambylu Vasudeva (2016). "Microhyla laterite sp. nov., a new species of Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from a laterite rock formation in south west India". PLoS ONE. 11 (3): e0149727. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149727.
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