Philautus griet Bossuyt 2002
Creators: name: Biju, S. D.
name: Bossuyt, Franky
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Rhacophoridae
Philautus
Philautus griet

description: PHILAUTUS GRIET BOSSUYT, 2002   
(FIGS 2, 37A, B, 38A; TABLE 2)  
 Type material: Holotype, KBIN 1919, an adult male, SVL 21.3 mm, from Munnar, Idukki, Kerala; paratypes, KBIN 1920–1922 and KBIN 1926, four adult males, from Munnar.   
brown with minute white marbling in life, turning light grey with white marbling in preservation; BNHS 4456 (Fig. 37A) has relatively more spinular dorsum compared with the holotype, dorsum lightbrownish grey with a pair of dark concave stripes in life turning grey in preservation, both limbs having dark cross bands; BNHS 4457 light-reddish brown with a triangular light-greyish red snout and two light-red concave stripes on the back; BNHS 4458 (Fig. 37B, left) and BNHS 4455 uniformly lightreddish brown dorsum in life turning light-greyish brown in preservation.  
 Other material studied: BNHS 4455–4457, three adult males, and BNHS 4464, an adult female, from Munnar; BNHS 4458, an adult male, from Valparai (Table 2).   
 Diagnosis: Philautus griet can be distinguished from known congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) small male adult snout–vent length (SVL 21.1 ± 1.0 mm N = 5); (2) skin of dorsum with small horny spinules; (3) horny ridges between the eyes, arranged in a triangle directed posteriorly; (4) flank and groin light brown with minute white marbling; (5) posterior part of thighs brown with minute grey spots. Also see the ‘Diagnosis’ section of P. charius.   
 Description of the holotype: A detailed description and illustrations were published in Bossuyt (2002).   
 Colour in life: Some colour variation has already been illustrated elsewhere (Bossuyt, 2002). SDB 046 has a light greyish brown dorsum with various numbers of irregular black patches in life, turns dark grey with faint irregular patches in preservation, with a pair of light-brown concave stripes running from behind the eye to the vent in life, dark grey in preservation; iris golden brownish with a bluish grey outer ring, groin, flank, and anterior and posterior side of thighs light Variation: Measurements of six specimens including the holotype are given in Table 2.   
 Distribution and natural history: Devikulam, Munnar, and Vagaman in Kerala, and Valparai in Tamil Nadu (Fig. 38A, Table 1). This species has a preference for calling from between ground level and a maximum height of 2 m. All of the individuals were observed at night-time after 19:00 h, either in roadside vegetation near isolated forest patches or in plantations near forests.   
 Remarks: The museum number of holotype KBIN 1919 was incorrectly stated by Bossuyt (2002: fig. 2) as ‘ holotype KBIN 1918’, but is corrected here as ‘ holotype KBIN 1919’.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 374-444 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (2) on pages 415-416, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00466.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5445358