First Record of the Brown Blotched Bengal Tree Frog (Polypedates bengalensis) from Odisha, India

Authors

  • P. G. S. Sethy
     Zoological Survey of India, Herpetology Division, FPS Building, 27 J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata – 700016, West Bengal
  • Kaushik Deuti
     Zoological Survey of India, Herpetology Division, FPS Building, 27 J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata – 700016, West Bengal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v120/i3/2020/150700

Keywords:

Amphibia, Distributional Range, Diversity, Rhacophoridae

Abstract

The recently described Brown Blotched Bengal Tree frog, Polypedates bengalensis, is being reported for the first time from Odisha. This forms the second report of the species, after it was described from West Bengal, India. With the present report, the number of Polypedates species from Odisha increases to three species and the total number of amphibian diversity from Odisha comprises 28 species.

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2020-09-06

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Sethy, P. G. S., & Deuti, K. (2020). First Record of the Brown Blotched Bengal Tree Frog (<i>Polypedates bengalensis</i>) from Odisha, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 120(3), 281–284. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v120/i3/2020/150700

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Volume 120, Issue 3, 2020

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