Euphlyctis
Euphlyctis is a genus of frogs in family Dicroglossidae distributed from the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and Afghanistan to India, Nepal, through Myanmar and Thailand to Malaya, and Sri Lanka.[1] None of the four species assessed by the IUCN is considered threatened.[2]
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| Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis from Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dicroglossidae |
| Genus: | Euphlyctis Fitzinger, 1843 |
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Species
There are eight species recognised in the genus Euphlyctis:[1][3]
- Euphlyctis aloysii Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009
- Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799)
- Euphlyctis ehrenbergii (Peters, 1863)
- Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)
- Euphlyctis hexadactylus (Lesson, 1834)
- Euphlyctis kalasgramensis Howlader, Nair, Gopalan, and Merilä, 2015
- Euphlyctis karaavali Priti, Naik, Seshadri, Singal, Vidisha, Ravikanth, and Gururaja, 2016
- Euphlyctis kerala Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2021
- Euphlyctis mudigere Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009 was placed into the synonymy of Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Euphlyctis.
- Frost, Darrel R. (2021). "Euphlyctis Fitzinger, 1843". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- IUCN (2013). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>". Retrieved 16 November 2013.
- "Dicroglossidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
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