Anuran fauna of Bastar Division of Chhattisgarh state, India

摘要

Bastar is the southernmost civil division of Chhattisgarh state in India.Amphibian fauna of this sparsely populated tribal division is poorly known.The present piece of work has mainly been focused to tabulate the amphibianfauna of Indravati Basin so as to provide a base line data for more intensivestudies of this group in the basin, lying mostly in the southern part ofChhattisgarh state. The present study evidenced 16 species belonging to 10genera and 5 families of the order Anura from the Indravati basin. Habitats ofeach observed species has been briefed and in some cases the apparentmorphologicaldivergences havealso beendiscussed.