Minervarya agricola

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Dicroglossidae
Subfamilia: Dicroglossinae
Genus: Minervarya
Species: Minervarya agricola

Name

Minervarya agricola (Jerdon, 1853)

• Syntypes: ZSI. [lost fide Jerdon (1870: 67)]
• Neotype: ZSI/SRS/V/A/362, adult ♀, collected by T.S.N. Murthy on 7 March 1967. [designated by Ganesh, Dutta & Chandramouli (2017: 108)]
• Type locality: “inundated paddy-fields and meadows [of peninsular India]”, redesignated by neotype designation to “Selaiyur Lake in Madras”, India.

Combinations

• Rana agricola Jerdon, 1853: 532 [original combination]
• Fejervarya agricola — Ganesh, Dutta & Chandramouli, 2017: 108 [subsequent combination]
• Minervarya agricola — Chandramouli, Ankaiah, Arul, Dutta & Ganesh, 2019: 84 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Jerdon, T.C. 1853. Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 22: 522–534.
• Ganesh, S.R., Dutta, S.K. & Chandramouli, S.R. 2017. On the taxonomy and nomenclature of common Indian cricket frog Rana agricola Jerdon, 1853 (Amphibia: Dicroglossidae). Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 6(2): 107–113. PDF Reference page. 
• Chandramouli, S.R., Ankaiah, D., Arul, V., Dutta, S.K. & Ganesh, S.R. 2019. On the taxonomic status of Minervarya granosa (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi & Sumida, 2008) and the distribution of M. agricola (Jerdon, 1853) Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 8(1): 84–87. PDF Reference page.