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A new species of the genus Euphlyctis (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from West Bengal, India

Bhakat, S.; Bhakat, S.

2021-04-19 zoology
10.1101/2021.04.18.440320 bioRxiv
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A new species of green frog of the genus Euphlyctis Fitzinger, 1843 is described from West Bengal, a state of eastern India. A robust frog, SVL of male 86mm and that of female 132mm. The species is diagnosed by the presence of following characters: green dorsum and female with a greenish white mid-dorsal line, tibiotarsal articulation reaches eye, male with two vocal sac openings at the junction of jaw, female is larger than male though body parameters is proportionately longer in male, nostril snout length 3.45% of SVL, nostril much closer to snout tip than eye, units of hind limb i. e. thigh, shank and foot are almost equal in length, relative length of finger: II < IV < I < III. The new species is compared with existing eight species of the genus Euphlyctis.

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