Raorchestes garo (Boulenger, 1919)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Ixalus garo Boulenger 1919; Rhacophorus (Philautus) garo (Boulenger, 1919) [Ahl, 1931]; Philautus garo (Boulenger, 1919) [Bourre, 1942)]
Conservation Status
Last record: 1919 or before (Naveen et al., 2024:362)
Rediscovered on: 23 June 2020 (Naveen et al., 2024:362)
Distribution & Habitat
Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Type locality: “Above Tura” (Naveen et al., 2024:362)
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: ZSI 19187 (Naveen et al., 2024:362)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Boulenger, G. A. (1919). XII Descriptions of Three new Batrachians from the Garo Hills, Assam. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 16(2): 207-208. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v16/i2/1919/162810
Other references:
Ahl, E. (1931). Amphibia, Anura III, Polypedatidae. Das Tierreich 55: xvi + 477.
Bourret, R. (1942). Les Batraciens de l’Indochine. Hanoi: Institut Océanographique de l’Indochine 6: 1-547.
Naveen, R. S., Chandramouli, S. R., Bubu, S., Ryndongsngi, A. M. and Karunakaran, P. V. (2024). Rediscovery and redescription of Ixalus garo Boulenger, 1919, and Ixalus kempiae Boulenger, 1919, with a reassessment of the taxonomic status of Raorchestes cangyuanensis Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu, Murphy & Che, 2019 and the description of a new species from the Garo Hills of Meghalaya. Herpetozoa 37: 359-372. https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e122825