Comment on “Scaling new heights: first record of Boulenger’s Lazy Toad Scutiger boulengeri (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from high altitude lake in Sikkim Himalaya, India†by Barkha Subba, G. Ravikanth & N.A. Aravind (2015)
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