Philautus kaikatti, Biju & Bossuyt, 2009

Biju, S. D. & Bossuyt, Franky, 2009, Systematics and phylogeny of Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Anura, Rhacophoridae) in the Western Ghats of India, with descriptions of 12 new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (2), pp. 374-444 : 419

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00466.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10546112
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scientific name	Philautus kaikatti
status	sp. nov.

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PHILAUTUS KAIKATTI View in CoL SP. NOV.

( FIGS 2 View Figure 2 , 38C View Figure 38 , 41A–D View Figure 41 , 42 View Figure 42 ; TABLE 2)

Type material: Holotype, BNHS 4557 View Materials , an adult male ( SVL 24.2 mm), collected by SDB on 20 September 1998 from Kaikatti-Nelliyampathi , Palakkad, Kerala, India; paratypes, BNHS 4465–4466 View Materials , and BNHS 4417 View Materials , three adult males collected along with the holotype.

Other material studied: SDB 541 , an adult male, collected along with the holotype ( Table 2) .

Diagnosis: Philautus kaikatti sp. nov. can be distinguished from known congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) medium male adult size (SVL 24.9 ± 1.4 mm, N = 5); (2) snout oval in dorsal view; (3) canthus rostralis rounded; (4) tympanum rather indistinct; (5) lateral side prominently granular with light and grey spots; (6) posterior part of thighs prominently granular; (7) posterior part of thighs and groin brown.

For comparison with the closely related species P. anili and P. sushili sp. nov., see the ‘Diagnosis’ of P. anili .

Description of the holotype (all measurements in mm): Medium-sized frog (SVL 24.2) with a rather robust body ( Fig. 41A View Figure 41 ); head length (HL 9.5) equal to width (HW 9.5; MN 7.7; MFE 5.7; MBE 2.7); outline of snout oval in dorsal view ( Fig. 41A View Figure 41 ), snout length (SL 3.6)

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Figure 2. Maximum-likelihood phylogram (GTR + G + I; –Ln L = 14 763.97) for the mitochondrial DNA data set of 1488 bp of 34 taxa of Western Ghats Philautus and five outgroup species. Numbers above branches indicate nonparametric bootstrap values under maximum parsimony (MP). Numbers below branches indicate Bayesian posterior probabilities. *Values of less than 50.

Figure 38. Distribution map. A, Philautus griet; B, Philautus jayarami sp. nov.; C, Philautus kaikatti sp. nov.; D, Philautus kani sp. nov.

Figure 41. Holotype of Philautus kaikatti sp. nov. (BNHS 4557). A, dorsal view; B, lateral view of head; C, ventral view of hand; D, ventral view of foot. Scale bars: 5 mm.