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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE1FF8230DAFBBEFF50C40D" bold="true" box="[133,237,1109,1135]" pageId="4" pageNumber="251">Figure 3.</emphasis>
Live colour image of holotype of
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(Photo: Bikramjit Sinha).
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is a member of the morphological
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); head wider than long (HW&gt;HL); snout rounded, longer than eye length (SL&gt;EL); inter-orbital distance less than both upper eyelid width and inter-narial distance (IUE&lt;UEW&lt;IN); tympanum distinct, about 40% of eye length; finger I disk slightly dilated, all disks with circum-marginal grooves, only a hint of groove in finger I; tibia longer than femur and foot (TiL&gt;FOL&gt;ShL), about 2/3
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of SVL; tibio-tarsal articulation reaches up to the nostril; supra-tympanic fold strong; single row of discontinuous roundish tubercles dorso-laterally.
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Description of the
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: Adult male (SVL
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), body robust, head wider than long (HW&gt;HL), flat above; snout rounded, protruding in lateral view, snout longer than the eye diameter (SL&gt;EL); canthus rostralis distinct, loreal region depressed; inter-orbital distance less than both upper eyelid width and inter-narial distance (IUE&lt;UEW&lt;IN); the nostrils laterally placed, slightly nearer to the eyes (NS&gt;NE); pupil horizontal; tympanum distinct, circular and little depressed, separated from the eye by a distance slightly more than its diameter; pineal ocellus visible; a pair of vomerine teeth situated between the choanae; tongue bilobed. Vocal sac externally visible.
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Dorsal skin smooth; a single row of discontinuous roundish tubercles dorso-laterally; laterally granular, supra-tympanic fold strong; ventral skin smooth.
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The Colouration of the
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: (
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) Dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots, these cocoa-brown spots enclosing a number of smaller dull brick-red spots; laterally spotted with neon yellow; ventral color cocoa-brown. Limbs distinctly banded; thighs with alternating dull brick-red and cocoa-brown (speckled with lighter dots) bands, hind limbs with neon yellow spots laterally (
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).
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same as in live condition, except that all the colours are faded (
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).
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Condition of the
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: The
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is in good condition. Ventral incision was made to extract liver tissue which was used in the molecular study.
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF8333DAFD41FB92C2A6" box="[901,1071,682,708]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">Natural history</emphasis>
: The
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was collected after the dusk hours from a small hill stream from Chakpa village.
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF8333DAFD19FBB6C36E" box="[901,1035,754,780]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">Distribution</emphasis>
: Known from its
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locality of Chakpa Village, Dirang Administrative Circle, West Kameng district of
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF8333DAFCB4FBA8C31B" box="[901,1045,863,889]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">Comparisons</emphasis>
: The new species is compared with the other species of
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF83344EFC69FB7FC3FE" box="[1041,1218,898,924]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">Viridimaculatus</emphasis>
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species group.
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From the Indian
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF833434FC4DFAA1C3A2" box="[1131,1308,934,960]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">Viridimaculatus</emphasis>
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species group,
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF833302FC21FB92C386" box="[861,1071,970,996]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">Amolops chanakya</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="B8E257EAFFE0FF833467FC21FB2FC386" box="[1080,1170,970,996]" pageId="5" pageNumber="252" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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differs from
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF833574FC20FA0CC386" box="[1323,1457,970,997]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">A. formosus</emphasis>
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(in parentheses) in having larger male SVL (vs. smaller), nostril nearer to eye (vs. equidistant), tympanum small, distinct (vs. about the size of finger III disk), TiL&gt;ShL (vs. TiL&lt;ShL), inner-metatarsal tubercles distinct (vs. indistinct), outer metatarsal tubercle absent (vs. present), dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. bright green with large dark spots); from
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF8333FEFB00FBEEC566" box="[929,1107,1258,1285]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">A. himalayanus</emphasis>
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(in parentheses) in having small tympanum but distinct and depressed (vs. slightly visible), tibia 2/3
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of SVL (vs. almost equal), tibio-tarsal articulation reached up to nostril (vs. beyond the tip of the snout), dorsum dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. olive with darker spots); from
<taxonomicName id="56A54D00FFE0FF83359EFA75FC6BC5BE" authorityName="Biju, Mahony &amp; Kamei" authorityYear="2010" class="Amphibia" family="Ranidae" genus="Amolops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="5" pageNumber="252" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nidorbellus">
<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF83359EFA75FC6BC5BE" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">A. nidorbellus</emphasis>
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(in parentheses) having distinct pineal ocellus (vs. barely visible), IUE&lt;UEW (vs. IUE&gt;EUW), external vocal sac visible (vs. absent), dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. brown with small, irregular cobalt green spots), ventral cocoa-brown (vs. pale brown with scattered small, white spots); from
<taxonomicName id="56A54D00FFE0FF8333C3F971FBD7C6D6" baseAuthorityName="Jiang" baseAuthorityYear="1983" box="[924,1130,1690,1716]" class="Amphibia" family="Ranidae" genus="Amolops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="5" pageNumber="252" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="viridimaculatus">
<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF8333C3F971FBD7C6D6" box="[924,1130,1690,1716]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">A. viridimaculatus</emphasis>
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(in parentheses) in having wider head (vs. longer), tympanum distinct (vs. indistinct), outer metatarsal tubercle absent (vs. present), dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. maroon red with large green blotches); from
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE0FF8333FBF8A5FBA0C70A" box="[932,1053,1870,1896]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="252">A. tawang</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="B8E257EAFFE0FF833473F8A5FB31C70A" box="[1068,1164,1870,1896]" pageId="5" pageNumber="252" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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(in parentheses) in having smaller male SVL (vs. larger), nostril nearer to the eye (vs. equidistant), IUE&lt;UEW (vs. IUE=UEW), tympanum larger (vs. extremely depressed and small), TYD ≈ TE (vs. TYD= ½TE), external vocal sac distinctly visible (vs. faintly visible), tibio-tarsal articulation reaches up to nostril (vs. snout), dorsum dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. dorsal color olive-green, spotted with large, irregular shaped dark-brown spots), ventral color cocoa-brown (vs. dark, speckled with lighter dots and dashes)
</paragraph>
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From the
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF803164FDD5FE51C23A" box="[315,492,574,600]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">Viridimaculatus</emphasis>
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species group found outside
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,
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differs from
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF8032B5FD89FEB1C2C2" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">A. beibengensis</emphasis>
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(in parentheses) in having head wider than long (vs. HL=HW), tibio-tarsal articulation reached up to the nostril (vs. between nose and eye), vocal sac externally visible (vs. absent), dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. dorsum brown with green spots); from
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF803133FCD1FDA5C336" box="[364,536,826,852]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">A. gyirongensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(in parentheses) in having larger male SVL&gt;
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(vs. &lt;
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), vocal sac externally visible (vs. absent); dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. bright green with dark brown irregular large spots); from
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF803568FF3DFA7DC092" box="[1335,1472,214,240]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">A. kaulbacki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(in parentheses) in having larger male SVL&gt;
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(vs. up to
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), IUE&lt;UEW (vs. IUE&gt;UEW), tibio-tarsal articulation reached up to the nostril (vs. beyond snout), vocal sac externally visible (vs. absent), dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. green with black spots and marbling); from
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF80357DFE45FA7DC1AA" box="[1314,1472,430,456]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">A. longimanus</emphasis>
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(in parentheses) in not having a distinctive dorsolateral fold (vs. present), absence of parotid-like swelling above tympanum (vs. present); from
<taxonomicName id="56A54D00FFE3FF8034AAFDF1FA28C256" authorityName="Li &amp; Rao in Zhao, Rao, Lu &amp; Dong" authorityYear="2005" box="[1269,1429,538,564]" class="Amphibia" family="Ranidae" genus="Amolops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="6" pageNumber="253" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="medogensis">
<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF8034AAFDF1FA28C256" box="[1269,1429,538,564]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">A. medogensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(in parentheses) in having smaller male SVL of
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(vs.
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), vocal sac externally visible (vs. absent), dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. olive green with brown markings/dark brown with small yellow-green spots); from
<taxonomicName id="56A54D00FFE3FF8034AAFD25FA28C28A" authorityName="Qi, Zhou, Lyu, Lu &amp; Li" authorityYear="2019" box="[1269,1429,718,744]" class="Amphibia" family="Ranidae" genus="Amolops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="6" pageNumber="253" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pallasitatus">
<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF8034AAFD25FA28C28A" box="[1269,1429,718,744]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">A. pallasitatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(in parentheses) in having tibio-tarsal articulation reached up to the nostril (vs. posterior eye corner), dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. yellow green with irregular dark brown blotches); from
<taxonomicName id="56A54D00FFE3FF8033DEFC69FB88C3FE" authorityName="Orlov &amp; Ho" authorityYear="2007" box="[897,1077,898,924]" class="Amphibia" family="Ranidae" genus="Amolops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="6" pageNumber="253" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="splendissimus">
<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF8033DEFC69FB88C3FE" box="[897,1077,898,924]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">A. splendissimus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(in parentheses) in having a supra-tympanic fold strong (vs. poorly developed), dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. black-brown spangled thickly with bright yellow spots); from
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE2FF813166FEF5FE62C15A" box="[313,479,286,312]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="254">A. wangyufani</emphasis>
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(in parentheses) in having larger male SVL&gt;
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(vs. &lt;
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), tibio-tarsal articulation reached up to the nostril (vs. beyond snout), dorsal color dull brick-red, spotted with irregular cocoa-brown spots (vs. brown with sparse green patches).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF8030D9F8B7FF50C714" bold="true" box="[134,237,1884,1910]" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">Figure 5.</emphasis>
Live colour image of holotype of
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE3FF803235F8B7FC9DC714" box="[618,800,1884,1910]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="253">Amolops tawang</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
(Photo: Bikramjit Sinha).
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<paragraph id="911A3683FFE2FF813097FE39FF58C2A6" blockId="7.[160,798,214,816]" pageId="7" pageNumber="254">
<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE2FF813097FE39FE81C18E" box="[200,316,466,492]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="254">Etymology</emphasis>
: The species epithet is a patronym named after Chanakya (also known as Kautilya or Vishnugupta), a 4
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century BCE Indian polymath and administrator famous for Arthashastra, a Sanskrit treatise on economic policies, statecraft and military strategy. The species epithet is treated as a noun in apposition to the generic name.
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<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE2FF813097FD25FE48C28A" box="[200,501,718,744]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="254">Suggested Common Name</emphasis>
: We suggest
<emphasis id="A3D1EA91FFE2FF8132C4FD26FE89C369" bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="254">Chanakyas cascade frog</emphasis>
as a common English name and चाणक्य झरना मेंढक as a common Hindi name for this species.
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