List of the Batrachia in the Indian museum / by W.L. Sclater.

  • Indian Museum
Date:
1892
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Credit: List of the Batrachia in the Indian museum / by W.L. Sclater. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 species previously confounded with well-known forms now shown to be distinct—Rana vicina, R. granulosa, Ixalus cin&rascem, Bufo stomaticus. 2 species previously unknown to the Indian fauna but since added—Ixalus asper, Microhyla achatina. 6 species confined to the Malay Peninsula and not recorded from British India proper—Rana hascheana, R. plicatella, R. glandulosa, Bufo penmgensis, Phrynella pollicaris, Megalophrys nasuta. Making in all 147 species known from British India and the Malay Peninsula; of these^ as is shown in the Table above, the Indian Museum possesses specimens of 103, so that there are still 44 species unrepresented in the Museum, and of these desiderata a list is given below. The number of type specimens in the Museum amounts to 21, of which 7 were described by Stoliezka, 5 by Anderson, 4 by Blyth, 3 by myself, and 1 each by Blanford and Jerdon; a complete list of these, together with the references to the original descriptions, will also be found below. The arrangement and nomenclature of this list are entirely formed on Mr. Boulenger’s work in the British Museum Cata- logues and the Reptiles and Batrachia in the ‘ Fauna of British India ^ series, and I have to offer him further my very best thanks for a great deal of help in identifying many obscure specimens and allowing me full access to all the British Museum Collections. The descriptions of several new species and certain novel facts in geographical distribution and synonymy will be found in a paper published in the Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1892, p. 341, which is referred to throughout the list. The principal donors of the Batrachia in the Indian Museum are:—Dr. F. Stoliezka, Dr. J. Anderson, Dr. T. C. Jerdon,aud Mr. W. T. Blanford from all parts of India; Col. Beddome and Mr. W. M. Daly from South India; Mr. Gammie from the Darjeeling District, and Mr. W. Theobald from Burma; and, finally, Capt. J. Butler and Messrs. S. E. Peal and J. H. Bourne from Assam.
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