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.
Highlights
The genus Euphlyctis consists of six species distributed in western Asia, southern Arabian Peninsula, India to Afghanistan, Nepal, Malaya, and Sri Lanka [1]
Alam et al [8] reported the possible occurrence of several cryptic species in the E. cyanophlyctis species complex on the basis of high genetic divergence of mitochondrial gene sequences from the E. cyanophlyctis described from the type locality in Southern India near to Sri Lanka [1, 9]
R. bengalensis is considered synonymous with R. leschenaultii described from type locality “Pondichéry and Bengale” [30], by Cantor [31]
Summary
The genus Euphlyctis consists of six species distributed in western Asia, southern Arabian Peninsula, India to Afghanistan, Nepal, Malaya, and Sri Lanka [1]. In Bangladesh Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis is reported as one of the most common species distributed over both plains and hills [2,3,4]. Alam et al [8] reported the possible occurrence of several cryptic species in the E. cyanophlyctis species complex on the basis of high genetic divergence of mitochondrial gene sequences from the E. cyanophlyctis described from the type locality in Southern India near to Sri Lanka [1, 9]. We describe a new species, earlier recognized as E. cyanophlyctis from Bangladesh, which show high degree of genetic divergence from the species described from southern India by Joshy et al [7]. Complete morphological description of the new species, along with notes on its natural history are given
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