identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
060A87C80664AE6EFF036E0DD1D650F9.text	060A87C80664AE6EFF036E0DD1D650F9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Fejervarya nepalensis (Dubois 1975)	<div><p>Fejervarya nepalensis (Dubois, 1975)</p> <p>Materials examined: 3 ex. Regn. No. V /A/NERC- 1220, Meghalaya, East Khasi Hills, Sohra Khliehshnong, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=91.69544&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=25.28489" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 91.69544/lat 25.28489)">Umiong</a> ῾Law Adong. 25 o 17’05.6”N; 91 o 41’43.6”E; alt. 1312 m ASL, 04.xi.2014, ZSI &amp; Meghalaya <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=91.69544&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=25.28489" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 91.69544/lat 25.28489)">Forest Department</a> survey party; 9 exs. Regn. No. V /A/NERC-1221, Meghalaya, East Khasi Hills, Lyniong village, Lyniong Sacred Grove, 25 o 25’91.4”N; 91 o 42’62.0”E; alt. 1674.56 m ASL, 20.x.2014, ZSI &amp; Meghalaya Forest Department survey party.</p> <p>Diagnostic characters: Small-sized frogs (SVL: 35.12-</p> <p>38.73). The body is somewhat oblong oval, and the dorsum is covered with oblong tubercles forming four longitudinal folds and several other short tubercles on the body and tibia (Figure 1); a distinct but narrow mid-dorsal line always present, with or without red patches. Head is dorsally pointed and laterally rounded, with the snout jutting over the lower jaw; nostrils closer to the snout tip; tympanum small, round, inconspicuous and spotted; relative finger length 2&lt;1&lt;4&lt;3, the 1 st finger scarcely longer than the 2 nd; subarticular tubercles globular; inner metatarsal tubercle oval and flat; outer metatarsal tubercle small and oval; tibio-tarsal articulation reaches between eye and nostril. Ventrum smooth (Figure 2).</p> <p>Figure 1. Fejervarya nepalensis, Dorsal View.</p> <p>Figure 2. Fejervarya nepalensis, Ventral View.</p> <p>Distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya and Sikkim in North-East India, and Haryana and Uttarakhand in the rest of India. Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal.</p> <p>Remarks: Recorded here for the first time from Meghalaya in North-East India. The specimens were collected from pristine environments of the Sacred Groves of the State located at high altitudes (1312 – 1675 m ASL) way above the elevation (below 500 ASL) they are generally known to occur (Bordoloi &amp; Shrestha, 2009).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/060A87C80664AE6EFF036E0DD1D650F9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Kharkongor, Ilona Jacinta;Saikia, Bhaskar	Kharkongor, Ilona Jacinta, Saikia, Bhaskar (2017): First record of the Nepal cricket frog, Fejervarya nepalensis (Dubois, 1975) from Meghalaya, North East India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3): 286, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i3/2017/120971, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i3/2017/120971
