Euphlyctis Explained

Euphlyctis is a genus of frogs in family Dicroglossidae distributed from the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and Afghanistan to India, Nepal, through Myanmar and Thailand to Malaya, and Sri Lanka.^[1] None of the four species assessed by the IUCN is considered threatened.^[2]

Species

There are eight species recognised in the genus Euphlyctis:^{[1] [3]}

• Euphlyctis aloysii (Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009)
• Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799)
• Euphlyctis ehrenbergii (Peters, 1863)
• Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)
• Euphlyctis hexadactylus (Lesson, 1834)
• Euphlyctis jaladhara (Dinesh K, Channakeshavamurthy B, Deepak P, Shabnam A, Ghosh A, and Deuti K, 2022)
• Euphlyctis kalasgramensis (Howlader, Nair, Gopalan, and Merilä, 2015)
• Euphlyctis karaavali (Priti, Naik, Seshadri, Singal, Vidisha, Ravikanth, and Gururaja, 2016)
• Euphlyctis kerala (Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2021)

• Euphlyctis mudigere (Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009 was placed into the synonymy of Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Euphlyctis Fitzinger, 1843 . Frost, Darrel R. . 2021 . Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1 . American Museum of Natural History . 2 July 2021.
2. Web site: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. . IUCN . 2013 . 16 November 2013.
3. Web site: Dicroglossidae . 2015 . AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application] . Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb . 2 March 2015.