Fejervarya brevipalmata

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial ; Freshwater [1].

Ecology: It is a grassland frog associated with waterlogged or marshy areas, and it has also been recorded from suitable wet patches of forest and lightly degraded former forest.[1].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.6     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded   
  
•     4.7     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Rana brevipalmata

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

This species was described based on a single "purchased specimen" from "Pegu", Myanmar (Peters 1871). Boulenger (1920) expressed doubts regarding its type locality . The population of Wayanad matches the type description, and presumably the type specimen is from the Western Ghats and not from Myanmar.[1].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Fejervarya

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in this genus:

F. brevipalmata (Short-Webbed Frog) · F. cancrivora (Asian Brackish Frog) · F. greenii (Sri Lanka Paddy Field Frog) · F. keralensis (Kerala Warty Frog) · F. kirtisinghei (Mountain Paddy Field Frog) · F. limnocharis (Alpine Cricket Frog) · F. nepalensis (Nepal Wart Frog) · F. pierrei (Pierre's Wart Frog) · F. rufescens (Malabar Wart Frog) · F. syhadrensis (Long-Legged Cricket Frog) · F. teraiensis (Terai Wart Frog)

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Further Reading

• Amphibian Data. For additional documentation about utilization and CITES status, click on the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) link above to see the GAA account for this species or alternatively follow this link to the search function on the Global Amphibian Assessment web site and run your own search.
• Biju, S.D. 2001. A synopsis to the frog fauna of the Western Ghats, India. Occasional Publication 1. ISCB: 1-24.
• Boulenger, G.A. 1920. Monograph …genus Rana. Records of the Indian Museum: 1-226.
• Chanda, S.K. 2002. Handbook - Indian Amphibians. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.
• Chanda, S.K. and Deuti, K. 1997. Endemic Amphibians of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India: 63-79.
• Dubois, A. 1984. Note preliminaire sur le groupe de Rana limnocharis Gravenhorst, 1829 (Amphibiens, Anoures). Alytes: 142-159.
• Dubois, A. and Ohler, A. 2000. Systematics of Fejervarya limnocharis (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) and related species. 1. Nomenclatural status and type specimens of the nominal species Rana limnocharis Gravenhorst, 1829. Alytes: 15-50.
• Dutta, S.K. 1997. Amphibians of India and Sri Lanka. Odyssey Publishing House, Bhubaneswar.
• Gurushankara, H.P., Krishnamurthy, S.V. and Vasudev, V. 2007. Morphological abnormalities in natural populations of common frogs inhabiting agroecosystems of central Western Ghats. Applied Herpetology 4: 39-45.
• IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
• IUCN. 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2009.2). Available at: www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 3 November 2009).
• Peters, W. 1871. Neue Gattungen und neue oder Weinger bekannte Arten von Amphibien. Monatsberichte der königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: 924-943.

Notes

Contributors

• Biju, S.D. & Dutta, S. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Biju, S.D. & Dutta, S. 2009. Fejervarya brevipalmata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4805093
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-664955
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 664955
• IUCN ID: 209612
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 133403

Footnotes

1. Biju, S.D. & Dutta, S. 2009. Fejervarya brevipalmata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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