Sallywalkerana, a replacement name for Walkerana Dahanukar et al. 2016 (Anura: Ranixalidae)

Authors

  • Neelesh Dahanukar Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-9023
  • Nikhil Modak Department of Biodiversity, MES Abasaheb Garware College, Karve Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411004, India http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3303-7056
  • Keerthi Krutha Wildlife Information Liaison Development (WILD) Society, 96 Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3664-3924
  • P. O. Nameer Centre for Wildlife Studies, College of Forestry, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, Kerala 680656, India http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7110-6740
  • Anand D. Padhye Department of Zoology, MES Abasaheb Garware College, Karve Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411004, India Institute of Natural History Education and Research (INHER), B1/602 Kumar Parisar, Kothrud, Pune, Maharashtra 411038, India http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5971-4759
  • Sanjay Molur Systematics, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Zoo Outreach Organization (ZOO), 96 Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India Wildlife Information Liaison Development (WILD) Society, 96 Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8230-518X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3056.8.11.9381

Keywords:

Taxonomy, Amphibians, Western Ghats.

Abstract

Dahanukar et al. (2016: pp. 9234) made available the genus name Walkerana (type species: Ixalus diplostictus Günther, 1876: 574, Pl. 63 fig. C) within family Ranixalidae for the monophyletic group with reduced webbing endemic to the Western Ghats of India south of Palghat gap. We were unaware that this name was preoccupied by Walkerana Otte and Perez-Gelabert in Otte 2009, in Insecta: Orthoptera: Gryllidae. As a result, a replacement name for this genus of frogs becomes necessary. Here we propose Sallywalkerana gen. nov. as the replacement name for Walkerana Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye & Molur, 2016.

Author Biography

Neelesh Dahanukar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

INSPIRE Faculty Fellow

References

Dahanukar, N., N. Modak, K. Krutha, P.O. Nameer, A.D. Padhye & S. Molur (2016). Leaping frogs (Anura: Ranixalidae) of the Western Ghats of India: An integrated taxonomic review. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(10): 9221–9288; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2532.8.10.9221-9288

Otte, D. (2009). Caribbean Crickets by D. Otte & D. Perez-Gelabert: Corrections and Synonymies and a Note on the Type of Gryllodes greeni Chopard (Orthoptera: Grylloidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 135(4): 487-491; http://dx.doi.org/10.3157/061.135.0408

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Published

26-09-2016

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Vol. 8 No. 11 (2016)

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