Nyctibatrachus
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Nyctibatrachus is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of true frog
True frog
The true frogs, family Ranidae, have the widest distribution of any frog family. They are abundant throughout most of the world, occurring on most continents except Antarctica...

s endemic to India
India
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. It is a very ancient member of the true frog family, Ranidae.

Their scientific name means "night frog", in reference to their habits and dark color.

Species

  • Nyctibatrachus acanthodermis
    Nyctibatrachus acanthodermis
    The spinular night frog is one of twelve species of frog in the Nyctibatrachus genus discovered in September 2011. It is found exclusively in the Western Ghats, India....

    Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus aliciae
    Nyctibatrachus aliciae
    Nyctibatrachus aliciae is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.It is endemic to India.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers.It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:...

    Inger, Shaffer, Koshy & Bakde, 1984
  • Nyctibatrachus anamallaiensis (Myers, 1942)
  • Nyctibatrachus beddomii
    Nyctibatrachus beddomii
    Nyctibatrachus beddomii is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. The epithet or specific name, beddomii, honors Colonel Richard Henry Beddome , British naturalist and military officer.-Habitat:...

    (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Nyctibatrachus danieli Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis
    Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis
    Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis is a wrinkled night frog species first described in the Shola forests around the Dattatreya Peeta in the Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka...

    Dinesh, Radhakrishnan & Bhatta, 2008
  • Nyctibatrachus deccanensis
    Nyctibatrachus deccanensis
    Nyctibatrachus deccanensis is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.It is endemic to India.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers.It is threatened by habitat loss....

    Dubois, 1984
  • Nyctibatrachus deveni Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus gavi Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus grandis Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus humayuni
    Nyctibatrachus humayuni
    Nyctibatrachus humayuni is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.-Habitat:Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers.-References:...

    Bhaduri & Kripalani, 1955
  • Nyctibatrachus indraneili Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus jog
    Nyctibatrachus jog
    The Jog night frog is one of twelve species of frog in the Nyctibatrachus genus discovered in September 2011. It is found exclusively in the Western Ghats, India, and is unique because both sexes share the responsibility of watching over the eggs....

    Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Reddy & Gururaja, 2007 (N. hussaini Krishnamurthy, Reddy and Gururaja, 2001)
  • Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis
    Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis
    Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis or the Kempholey night frog is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.-Habitat:Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers.-Taxonomy:...

    Rao, 1937
  • Malabar Night Frog – Nyctibatrachus major
    Nyctibatrachus major
    Nyctibatrachus major is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. Its English names are Malabar night frog, large wrinkled frog and Boulenger's narrow-eyed frog -Geographic range:...

    Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...

    , 1882
  • Nyctibatrachus minimus
    Nyctibatrachus minimus
    Nyctibatrachus minimus is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is the smallest known frog in the genus Nyctibatrachus and was recently discovered from Kurichiyarmala in the Western Ghats or Wayanad, Kerala....

    Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Roelants, Nagaraju & Bossuyt, 2007
  • Nyctibatrachus minor
    Nyctibatrachus minor
    Nyctibatrachus minor is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.-Habitat:Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers.-References:...

    Inger, Shaffer, Koshy & Bakde, 1984
  • Nyctibatrachus periyar Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus petraeus
    Nyctibatrachus petraeus
    Nyctibatrachus petraeus is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.-Habitat:Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers.-References:* Kunte, K. 2006. . Downloaded on 23 July 2007....

    Das & Kunte, 2005
  • Nyctibatrachus pillaii Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus poocha
    Nyctibatrachus poocha
    Nyctibatrachus poocha, also known as the meowing night frog because of its cat-like call, is one of twelve species of frog in the Nyctibatrachus genus discovered in September 2011. It is found exclusively in the Western Ghats, India...

    Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris
    Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris
    Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris or the Coorg night frog is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. The specific name, sanctipalustris, "holy swamp" in Latin, refers to the type locality, "the sacred swamps of the Cauvery [river]...Coorg, India"....

    Rao, 1920
  • Nyctibatrachus shiradi Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
  • Nyctibatrachus sholai Radhakrishnan, Dinesh & Ravichandran, 2007
  • Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus
    Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus
    Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus or the forest night frog is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.-Habitat:Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers.-Taxonomy:...

    Rao, 1937
  • Nyctibatrachus vasanthi
    Nyctibatrachus vasanthi
    Nyctibatrachus vasanthi is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.-References:* Biju, S.D., Dutta, S., Inger, R. & Ravichandran, M.S. 2004. . Downloaded on 23 July 2007....

    Ravichandran, 1997
  • Nyctibatrachus vrijeuni
    Nyctibatrachus vrijeuni
    The VUB night frog is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. Both the specific name, "vrijeuni", and the acronym in the common name, "VUB", refer to Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Free University of Brussels....

    Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju
    Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...

    , Van Bocxlaer, Mahony, Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Zachariah, Giri & Bossuyt, 2011
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