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Megophrys major
Authors/Creators
- 1. North Eastern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Shillong - 793014, Meghalaya, India; ilona. kharkongor @ ymail. com
- 2. Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai - 600028, Tamil Nadu, India
Description
3. Megophrys major (Boulenger, 1908)
Major’s Horned Toad (Figure 1 and 2, Plate-I)
1908. Megalophrys major Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 416 (Replacement name of Xenophrys gigas Jerdon, 1870).
Material examined: 1 ex. (Regn. No. V /A/ERS-912) Near Living Root bridge Mawshamok village, East Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya, 30.08.2009, Coll. A. Rana and party.
Distribution: INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Meghalaya. Elsewhere: Bhutan, China, Thailand, Cambodia,Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar.
Remarks: Recently reported from Meghalaya (Sangma and Saikia, 2015).
Notes
Published as part of Kharkongor, Ilona Jacinta, Saikia, Bhaskar & Deb, Rita, 2018, Systematic list of Genus Megophrys Kuhl and van Hasselt, 1822 (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) in Meghalaya, North-East India with a discussion on the distribution of M. wuliangshanensis Ye and Fei, 1995 in India, pp. 44 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i1/2018/122304, http://zenodo.org/record/10956046
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- V
- Event date
- 2009-08-30
- Verbatim event date
- 2009-08-30
- Scientific name authorship
- Boulenger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Megophryidae
- Genus
- Megophrys
- Species
- major
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megophrys major (Boulenger, 1908) sec. Kharkongor, Saikia & Deb, 2018
References
- Sangma, M. A. and Saikia, P. K. 2015. New records of amphibian fauna from Tura Peak Reserve Forest, West Garo Hills District, Meghalaya, Northeast India. Journal on New Biological Reports, 4 (1): 115 - 126.