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| Figure 3. Photographs illustrating diagnostic characters of Euphlyctis species. Ventral views of (A) Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (adult male, institutional collection’s specimen number: RGCB-5695) and (B) Euphlyctis kalasgramensis sp. nov. (adult male, institutional collection’s specimen number: MHL-B1001) (C) dorso-lateral view of Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (adult male, institutional collection’s specimen number: RGCB-5695) and (D) dorso-lateral view of Euphlyctis kalasgramensis sp. nov. (adult male, institutional collection’s specimen number: MHL-B1001). |
Abstract
A new species of the genus Euphlyctis is described from the Barisal district of Bangladesh and compared with its morphologically similar and geographically proximate congeners. The new species is highly divergent in comparison to other congeneric species on basis of sequence divergence in mitochondrial DNA gene sequences (ranging from 5.5% to 17.8% divergence). Euphlyctis kalasgramensis sp. nov. can be readily diagnosed by having the following combination of characters: snout-vent length (SVL) 30.44 – 37.88 mm, absence of mid-dorsal line, nostril–snout length 3% of SVL, nostril much closer to snout tip than eye, nostril–snout length 48% of distance from front of eyes to nostril, relative length of fingers (shortest to longest: 1 = 2 < 4 < 3), tibia length 59% of SVL, foot length 55% of SVL.
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| Figure 2. Photographs of Euphlyctis kalasgramensis sp. nov. (A) Dorso-lateral view of male (holotype) (B) Ventral view of male (holotype), (C) Ventral view of hand, (D) ventral view of foot, and (E) posterior view of thighs. |
Mohammad Sajid Ali Howlader , Abhilash Nair, Sujith V. Gopalan and Juha Merilä. 2015. A New Species of Euphlyctis (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from Barisal, Bangladesh.
PLoS ONE. E 10(2)—e0116666: 1–13. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116666
PLoS ONE. E 10(2)—e0116666: 1–13. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116666
