Nanorana arunachalensis (Saikia, Sinha & Kharkongor, 2017)

Hofmann, Sylvia, Schmidt, Joachim, Masroor, Rafaqat, Borkin, Leo J, Litvintchuk, Spartak, Rödder, Dennis, Vershinin, Vladimir & Jablonski, Daniel, 2023, Endemic lineages of spiny frogs demonstrate the biogeographic importance and conservational needs of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 (1), pp. 310-325 : 319

TAXONOMIC PLACEMENT OF NANORANA ARUNACHALENSIS

Besides, our 16S phylogeny and estimates of genetic distances revealed the misclassification of Nanorana arunachalensis . This species had been described as Odorrana arunachalensis ( Saikia et al., 2017) but was recently reassigned to Nanorana based on morphological considerations ( Qi et al., 2019). We here used the 16S sequence data of two vouchers (ZSIS-M37: MN496464 and ZSIS-M40: MN636773) from the type locality that were uploaded to GenBank (https://www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) in September 2019 by Saikia and colleagues, probably in response to the reassignment proposed by Qi et al. (2019). Based on our data, the species should be reclassified into Odorrana Fei et al., 1990 as long as there are no further molecular and morphological data that support a classification into another genus.