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Feihyla vittiger Biju & Garg & Gokulakrishnan & Chandrakasan & Thammachoti & Ren & Gopika & Bisht & Hamidy & Shouche 2020

  • 1. Systematics Lab, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, India & sdbiju @ es. du. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1039 - 4421
  • 2. Systematics Lab, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, India & sgarg. du @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0048 - 4346
  • 3. Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India & gokul 7701 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3574 - 1891
  • 4. Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India & c _ sivaperuman 1 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3582 - 7767
  • 5. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Phyathai Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand. tatsuya _ th @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3477 - 8964
  • 6. Systematics Lab, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, India & gopikacjnv 33 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0047 - 0438
  • 7. Systematics Lab, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, India & karranbisht 5 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9595 - 3450

Description

Feihyla vittiger group

This group can be distinguished from the Feihyla palpebralis group by the following suite of morphological characters: small to medium-sized adults (SVL 17–27 mm); snout nearly truncate in lateral view; the first two fingers opposable to the others; webbing absent between fingers, except for a rudiment of web between fingers III and IV at the base; foot webbing moderate, extending up to the second subarticular tubercle on either side of toe IV. A prominent and useful character for differentiating Feihyla vittiger group is the unique colouration of its members: upper arm, loreal, canthal and tympanic regions, lateral surfaces of abdomen, and anterior and posterior parts of thigh non-pigmented (flesh coloured); and a narrow white streak that starts from the snout tip and extends along the lateral surfaces of the head from below the eye up to the groin, clearly separating the dorsal and lateral body colouration (Fig. 6). Geographically, this group is currently restricted to the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo and Java; no reports exist from mainland Asia.

Species included. Feihyla inexpectata (Matsui, Shimada, and Sudin, 2014), Feihyla kajau (Dring, 1983), Feihyla samkosensis (Grismer, Thy, Chav, and Holden, 2007) comb. nov., and Feihyla vittiger (Boulenger, 1897) comb. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Biju, S. D., Garg, Sonali, Gokulakrishnan, G., Chandrakasan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Panupong, Ren, Jinlong, Gopika, C., Bisht, Karan, Hamidy, Amir & Shouche, Yogesh, 2020, New insights on the systematics and reproductive behaviour in tree frogs of the genus Feihyla, with description of a new related genus from Asia (Anura, Rhacophoridae), pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 4878 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4424570

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References

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