Astrobatrachus, Vijayakumar & Pyron & Dinesh & Torsekar & Srikanthan & Swamy & Stanley & Blackburn & Shanker, 2019

Vijayakumar, Seenapuram Palaniswamy, Pyron, Robert Alexander, Dinesh, K. P., Torsekar, Varun R., Srikanthan, Achyuthan N., Swamy, Priyanka, Stanley, Edward L., Blackburn, David C. & Shanker, Kartik, 2019, A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India, PeerJ 6457, pp. 1-28 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.7717/peerj.6457
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5587729
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C0D94B-FFD4-FFD9-D7C9-FA69FB192FF7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Astrobatrachus
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Type genus. — Astrobatrachus View in CoL gen. nov.

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:28F98D95-3E1E-41BB- B7A1-CC6766432E22, by present designation.

Etymology of the generic nomen. —From the Greek astro - for ‘star,’ referring to the starry spots, more prominent on the lateral sides of the body, and batrachus meaning ‘frog’. As per the nomenclatural act the gender of genus is ‘male.’

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Amphibia
Order	Anura
Family	Nyctibatrachidae
SubFamily	Astrobatrachinae

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