Range Extension in Uperodon Globulosus (Gunther 1864) in Assam

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by  P Choudhury

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
BNHS for encouragement, Mr Vithoba Hegde September 17, 1996 ALOYSIUS G. SEKAR
for assistance in the field, BNHS for financial Herpetology Section,
assistance and the forest officials in Satara, Bombay NaturalHistory Society,
Kolhapur and Sindhudurg forest division for Hornbill House, Shaheed BhagatSingh Road,
their kind cooperation. Mumbai 400 023
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20. RANGE EXTENSION IN UPERODONGLOBULOSUS(GUNTHER 1864)
IN ASSAM
Uperodon globulosus (Gunther 1864) is a represent a range extension by ca. 135 km
fossorial microhylid occurring in India and northeast, the previous easternmost point of
Bangladesh(IngerandDutta 1986,Khan 1982). distributionbeingMandakata(91°47' E, 26° 17'
InIndia, itisdistributedinAssam,WestBengal, N)inKamrupdist. InAssam,thespeciesisfound
Orissa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, along the floodplain from Kokrajhar dist., upto
Karnataka and Goa (Daniel 1963, Inger and Sonitpur dist., on the north bank of the
Dutta 1986, Dutta 1997). In Assam, it was Brahma—putra, and only a single record (Chanda
reported from Kamrup, Nalbari, Barpeta and 1994) Jalukbari has been reported from the
Kokrajhar districts (Chanda 1994, Sengupta south bank.
unpublished data).
globulOosnusJwuenree6c,oll1e9c9t8edafrpoamirBiosfwaUnpaethroPdlaoinn August 21, 1998 P.CMH.OUBDAHRUURAYH
(93° 25' E and 26° 45' N, Sonitpurdist., at2015 S. SENGUPTA
h. from a low-lying temporary waterlogged Zoology Department,
grassland around a perennial pond. Both were Arya Vidyapeeth College,
mature females (SVL 6.7 and 6.9 cm). These Guwahati-781'016. Assam.
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