First Record of Polypedates Leucomystax (Gravenhorst 1829) (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Southern West Bengal

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by  Kaushik Deuti

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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
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23. FIRST RECORD OF POLYPEDATES LEUCOMYSTAX(GRAVENHORST 1829)
(ANURA: RHACOPHORIDAE) FROM SOUTHERN WEST BENGAL
TheCommon IndianTreeFrogPolypedatesmaculatus extend the known range of the species by 500 km to the
has been reported from all the districts of West Bengal south.
(Mansukhani and Sarkar 1977; Sarkar 1984; Sarkar et al. We noted that the call of P. maculatus, which is
1992). sympatric, isadistincttak-tak-takwhilethatofP. leucomystax
However, the Four-lined Tree Frog Polypedates is a sharp and loud kraawk. P. leucomystax was observed to
leucomystax,which issocommon inallthestatesofnortheast be quite common in the area.
India (Dutta 1997), has only been reported from the hilly
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts ofnorthern West Bengal
(Sarkaretal. 1992). Ithasalsobeenreportedfrom the plains
ofBangladeshby Khan(1982). We thank Mr.Asit Banerjee and Mrs. Manju Banerjee
OnJune23,2002at 1930hrs,wecollectedamale(SVL forallowing usto collectthe frogs from theirgarden.
58 mm)andafemale(SVL74 mm)Polypedatesleucomystax
fromRajpur(22°20'N,88°35'E)inSouth24Parganasdistrict December24,2002 KAUSHIK DEUTI
of southern West Bengal, just 6 km south of Calcutta (= 39AGobindaAuddy Road,
Kolkata). The female was hiding in the leafaxil ofa banana Flat:A/3/1,Kolkata700027,
plant Musaparadisiaca), about 2 m abovethe ground, in a West Bengal, India.
(
garden. The male was calling from a fence near a pool of
water, 1.5 mabovetheground.Thespecimensweredeposited ANANDA BANERJEE
intheZoological SurveyofIndia,Calcutta(ZSIA9603,male; ‘Farmland’Dr. B.C. RoyRoad,
ZSIA9604, female). Thesespecimens arethe firstrecordof Rajpur, South24 Parganas,
the species from the plains of southern West Bengal, and West Bengal 743 379, India.
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24. A NOTE ON BARILIUS BAKER! (CYPRINIDAE: DANIONINAE)
FROM KARNATAKA WITH REMARKS ON THE STATUS
OF OPSARJUS MALABARICUS JERDON
Introduction flowing drainages. Among the east flowing rivers, namely
Day (1875-78) described 14 species of Barilius, Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery, they list one species from
groupingthem onthebasisofpresenceorabsenceofbarbels. Godavari - B. bertdelisis, three species from Krishna
Jayaram (1999) listed 18 species ofBarilius including one B. barila B. barna and B. bertdelisis and one species from
, ,
subspecies, from the Indian region. Recently, three more Cauvery - B. gatensis. From the west flowing rivers, they
species were described by Arunkumar and Singh (2000); report 3 species-B. bakeri, B. bertdelisisandB. cartarettsis.
Vishwanath et al. (2002) and Selim and Vishwanath (2002) EarlierJayarametal. (1982),reportingonthefishesofCauvery,
fromManipur, bringingthecurrenttotal to21 collected and recorded another species of Barilius from
From Karnataka, Chandrasekhariah et al. (2000) list 6 Karnataka, B. vagra vagra. There has been no report of
species, with their distribution in the different east and west B. vagravagrasubsequentlyfromCauvery,and furthermore.
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