Additions to the Amphibian fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, India, Eastern Himalaya

Abstract

The amphibian diversity of Arunachal Pradesh has increased by 3 species after studying the backlog collection of APRC/ZSI, Itanagar. The 3 species belongs to 3 genera, 3 families and 1 order. Of the 3 species, 1 species is least concern, 1 is data deficit and 1 not evaluated as per IUCN.

New locality records of the Zunheboto Horned Frog, Xenophrys zunhebotoensis Mathew and Sen 2007 (Anura: Megophryidae: Megophryinae) from India

“…T he Zunheboto Horned Frog (Xenophrys zunhebotoensis) was described from Nguti (Sukhalu), Zunheboto District, Nagaland, India (Mathew and Sen 2007), and has been recorded from Meghalaya, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh (Saikia and Sen 2012;Sangma and Saikia 2015;Saikia et al 2017;Kharkongor et al 2018;Mahony et al 2020). However, the records of this species from Meghalaya (Saikia and Sen 2012;Sangma and Saikia 2015;Kharkongor et al 2018) and Arunachal Pradesh (Saikia et al 2017) were erroneous and based on misidentifications (see Mahony et al 2020). The species has been recorded with certainty only from Nagaland and western Manipur (Mathew and Sen 2007;Mahony et al 2020).…”