Occurrence of Amolops assamensis Sengupta et. al., 2008 (Amphibia:Anura:Ranidae) and Polypedates assamensis Mathew and Sen, 2009 (Amphibia:Anura:Rhacophoridae) in Meghalaya

The genus Amolops is represented by six species (A. assamensis, A. formosus, A. gerbillus, A. marmoratus, A. monticola & A. viridimaculatus) in North East India (Mathew & Sen, 2010). Sengupta et al. (2008) described Amolops assamensis from Assam. The author came across a total of three specimens of Amolops assamensis from the unidentified holding of NERC/ZSI, Shillong. Two specimens (V/A/ERS/ZSI/911) were collected from Mawshamok village, near the living ischolar_main bridge in August, 2009 and one specimen (V/A/ERS/ZSI/901) was collected from Lawbah forest area, 13 kms ahead of Mawsynram, in March, 2010 from East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. (Plate-I & II).