Xenophrys apatani
| Xenophrys apatani | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Megophryidae |
| Genus: | Xenophrys |
| Species: | X. apatani
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| Binomial name | |
| Xenophrys apatani (Saikia et al, 2024)
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Xenophrys apatani, is a species of horned toad of Xenophrys genus, first discovered in Northeast India.
This leaf litter dwelling frog is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae found in Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India.[1] It lives amongst tea leaves and sporting small horns. It is dark brown in colour. The new species was first reported from Arunachal Pradesh in 2019 and by mistakenly overlooked as Xenophrys maosonensis.[2] The wrong identity of Indian horned frog X. apatani as the Vietnam and Chinese horned frog, X. maosonensis through genetic analysis. X. apatani is exhibiting 4.4 to 5.5% genetic distance with the X. maosonensis from Vietnam and also having some morphological differences.[3][dead link][4]
References
- ^ Bureau, The Hindu (2024-07-02). "Arunachal Pradesh yields new species of horned frog". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Service, Express News (2024-07-02). "New horned frog species discovered in Arunachal Pradesh". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
- ^ Saikia, Bhaskar; Sinha, Bikramjit; Shabnam, Shabnam. "On A New Species of Xenophrys (Anura: Megophryidae) from Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with Comments on the earlier erroneous report as X. maosonensis (Bourret, 1937)". Records of the Zoological Survey of India. 124: 21–40. doi:10.26515/rzsi/v124/i1S/2024/172712.
- ^ "New frog species discovered in Arunachal | The Arunachal Times". The Arunachal Times. 2024-07-03. Retrieved 2024-07-16.