Amphibians of the Dibang River Basin, Arunachal Pradesh: an annotated checklist with distribution records

Abstract

The present study across the Dibang River Basin is being presented as an annotated checklist from Arunachal Pradesh. A systematic survey was conducted during 2014–2017 by visual encounter surveys, as well as opportunistic records across the basin. Thirty-eight species of amphibians belonging to 17 genera in six families were recorded. Five new distribution records for Arunachal Pradesh, and one genus Oreolalax was recorded for the first time from India. Further, a rare report on Theloderma moloch and Rhacophorus tuberculatus from northeastern India provided significant information on species microhabitat and updated the amphibian distribution records from Arunachal Pradesh.

Keywords

• five new state records
• microhabitat
• one new genus record for india
• oreolalax
• rhacophorus tuberculatus
• theloderma moloch