A new locality record of Orissa Cricket Frog, Fejervarya orissaensis (Dutta, 1997) from Purba Medinipur District, West Bengal State, India

Ardhendu Das Mahapatra; Kaushik Deuti; Santosh Kumar Bera; Sudipta Kumar Ghorai

doi:10.52756/ijerr.2019.v19.002

Ardhendu Das Mahapatra Coastal Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Egra S.S.B. College, Egra, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal 721429, India
Kaushik Deuti Zoological Survey of India, Herpetology Division, 27 JL Nehru Road, Kolkata 700016, India
Santosh Kumar Bera Coastal Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Egra S.S.B. College, Egra, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal 721429, India
Sudipta Kumar Ghorai Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia-741235, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/ijerr.2019.v19.002

Keywords: Cricket Frog, Duttaphrynus melanostictus, Fejervarya orissaensis, Limnonectes orissaensis

Abstract

Orissa Cricket Frog Fejervarya orissaensis was first describe by Dutta (1997). Later this species reported from only few pockets of eastern India and recently reported from some countries of South-east Asia. Here, we provide the first occurrence report for this species from State West Bengal, India.

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