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A new species of Sphaerotheca Gunther, 1859 (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the agro ecosystems of Chota Nagpur Plateau, India

  • 1. Wildlife Institute of India, P O Box 18, Chandrabani - 248001, Uttarakhand, India
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Pune - 411044, Maharashtra, India; kpdinesh.zsi@gmail.com
  • 3. Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, Karnataka, India
  • 4. Biodiversity Research and Conservation Foundation, 73 Gulmohar Colony, ITI Road, Satara - 415002, Maharashtra, India
  • 5. Department of Zoology, Balasaheb Desai College, Patan, Satara - 415206, Maharashtra, India

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Prasad, Vishal Kumar, Dinesh, K. P., Das, Abhijit, Swamy, Priyanka, Shinde, Ajinkya D., Vishnu, Jadhav Bapurao (2019): A new species of Sphaerotheca Gunther, 1859 (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the agro ecosystems of Chota Nagpur Plateau, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (3): 197-210, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/132173, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10956131

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