A taxonomic review of the night frog genus nyctibatrachus boulenger, 1882 in the Western Ghats, India (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae) with description of twelve new species

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3029, 2011, Pages 1-96

  Biju, S D ^a   Bocxlaer, Ines Van ^b   Mahony, Stephen ^a   Dinesh, K P ^c   Radhakrishnan, C ^c   Zachariah, Anil ^d   Giri, Varad ^e   Bossuyt, Franky ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^d Beagle Chandakunnu   (India)

^e BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY   (India)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; New species; Reproductive and parental care behaviours; Revision; Subocular gland; Systematics; Taxonomy; Typification; Western Ghats

Indexed keywords

ANURA; FEJERVARYA; METAMORPHA; NYCTIBATRACHUS; NYCTIBATRACHUS ALICIAE; NYCTIBATRACHUS MAJOR;

EID: 80052845055     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3029.1.1     Document Type: Article

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