Hassan Al Razi discover new frog species in Bangladesh. scientific name: Raorchestes rezakhani, English Name: Bush frog. The 16S rRNA gene distinguished
this species from 48 known species of this genus. Bayesian Inference and
Maximum Likelihood analyses indicated
that the new
species was most
similar to R.
tuberohumerus, a species
found in the
Western Ghats, and to R. gryllus,
a species found in Vietnam. Bioacoustics indicated that their calls were
similar in pattern to most Raorchestes species, although number of pulses,
duration of pulses, pulse intervals and amplitude differentiated it from a few
other species. It is suggested that northeastern India, Bangladesh, northern
Myanmar, and southern China represent important, relatively unexplored areas
that could yield additional species of
Raorchestes. Since many
remaining habitat patches
in Bangladesh are
under severe threat from deforestation, efforts should be
made to protect these last patches from further degradation.
Bangladesh
falls within the Indo-Malayan realm, with forests classified as tropical moist,
tropical evergreen and several other less-extensive forest types . Broad
similarities exist between forest patches in north-eastern and southeastern
Bangladesh and the surrounding Indian States of Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and
Nagaland, and adjoining northern Myanmar and southern China.
Published on Zoo Keys 927(1):127-151 as entitle "A new species of cryptic Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes)
from northeastern Bangladesh Launched to accelerate biodiversity
research" DOI:10.3897/zookeys.927.48733
