Garo Hills frog

The Garo Hills frog, Boulenger's Garo Hill frog, swift cascade frog, mawphlang frog or Daniel's frog ("Hylarana" garoensis) is a small frog from India. Scientists think it may also live in Nepal.[3][1]

Garo Hills frog
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Hylarana
Species:
H. garoensis
Binomial name
Hylarana garoensis
(Boulenger, 1920)
Synonyms[3]
  • Rana garoensis (Boulenger, 1920)
  • Rana (Hylorana) garoensis (Boulenger, 1920)
  • Rana danieli (Pillai and Chanda, 1977)
  • Rana (Hylarana) danieli (Dubois, 1981)
  • Rana (Hylarana) garoensis (Dubois, 1987)
  • Rana (Sylvirana) garoensis (Dubois, 1992)
  • Rana (Sylvirana) danieli (Dubois, 1992)
  • Hylarana garoensis (Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005)
  • Hylarana danieli (Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005)
  • Sylvirana garoensis (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Sylvirana danieli (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Hylarana garoensis (Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007)
  • "Hylarana" garoensis (Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015)

This frog is 3.2 cm long. It is gray-brown on the black and almost white on its belly. It has a long head and pointed nose. Its front legs are longer than the front legs of most frogs this size. It has webbing on its hind feet but not its front feet. It has discs for climbing on its front feet.[1]

References
  1. Rupi Mudan (July 20, 2012). "Hylarana garoensis". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  2. Sushil Dutta; Annemarie Ohler; Saibal Sengupta; Sabitry Bordoloi; Debjani Roy (2004). "Garo Hills Frog: Hylarana garoensis". 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T58601A11806482. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58601A11806482.en. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58601A11806482.en. Retrieved December 21, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ""Hylarana" garoensis (Boulenger, 1920)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved December 21, 2020.


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