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List of works by Sathyabhama Das Biju

A new Microhyla species (Anura: Microhylidae) from riparian evergreen forest in the eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, India

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

A new species of Micryletta frog (Microhylidae) from Northeast India.

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

A unique mating strategy without physical contact during fertilization in Bombay Night Frogs (Nyctibatrachus humayuni) with the description of a new form of amplexus and female call.

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An integrative approach to infer systematic relationships and define species groups in the shrub frog genus Raorchestes, with description of five new species from the Western Ghats, India

scholarly article published in 2021

Author Correction: New microhylid frog genus from Peninsular India with Southeast Asian affinity suggests multiple Cenozoic biotic exchanges between India and Eurasia

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Cryptic diversity within the Megophrys major species group (Amphibia: Megophryidae) of the Asian Horned Frogs: Phylogenetic perspectives and a taxonomic revision of South Asian taxa, with descriptions of four new species

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DNA barcoding, phylogeny and systematics of Golden-backed frogs (Hylarana, Ranidae) of the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot, with the description of seven new species

scholarly article in Contributions to Zoology, vol. 83 no. 4, October 2014

Delineating Microhyla ornata (Anura, Microhylidae): mitochondrial DNA barcodes resolve century-old taxonomic misidentification

Description of four new species of Burrowing Frogs in the Fejervarya rufescens complex (Dicroglossidae) with notes on morphological affinities of Fejervarya species in the Western Ghats

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Discovery of a new family of amphibians from northeast India with ancient links to Africa

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Evolutionary History of the Asian Horned Frogs (Megophryinae): Integrative Approaches to Timetree Dating in the Absence of a Fossil Record

scientific article published on 18 January 2017

Frankixalus, a New Rhacophorid Genus of Tree Hole Breeding Frogs with Oophagous Tadpoles

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From Clinging to Digging: The Postembryonic Skeletal Ontogeny of the Indian Purple Frog, Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (Anura: Nasikabatrachidae).

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Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians

scientific article (publication date: 16 January 2007)

Gradual adaptation toward a range-expansion phenotype initiated the global radiation of toads

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Hiding in Plain Sight: Rain Water Puddles in Nicobar Islands of India Reveal Abundance of a New Frog Species of the Genus Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Anura: Microhylidae)

scientific article published in December 2022

Late Cretaceous vicariance in Gondwanan amphibians

scientific article (publication date: 20 December 2006)

Lectotypification of Two Linnaean Specific Names in Convolvulaceae

scientific article (publication date: November 2002)

Lepistemon verdcourtii, a New Species of Convolvulaceae from India, with Notes on L. binectariferum and L. leiocalyx

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Molecular and Morphological Study of Leaping Frogs (Anura, Ranixalidae) with Description of Two New Species

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Molecular systematics of caeciliid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) of the Western Ghats, India

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Mountain-associated clade endemism in an ancient frog family (Nyctibatrachidae) on the Indian subcontinent

scientific article published on December 8, 2011

Multiple Independent Recruitment of Sodefrin Precursor-Like Factors in Anuran Sexually Dimorphic Glands

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

New Species of Philautus (Anura: Ranidae, Rhacophorinae) from Ponmudi Hill in the Western Ghats of India

scientific article published in September 2005

New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles

scientific article published on October 16, 2003

New insights on the systematics and reproductive behaviour in tree frogs of the genus Feihyla, with description of a new related genus from Asia (Anura, Rhacophoridae)

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

New microhylid frog genus from Peninsular India with Southeast Asian affinity suggests multiple Cenozoic biotic exchanges between India and Eurasia.

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Patterns of reproductive-mode evolution in Old World tree frogs (Anura, Rhacophoridae)

scientific article published in 2015

Phylogeny and classification of fejervaryan frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae)

scholarly article in Salamandra, vol. 54 no. 2, 2018

Rediscovery of Micryletta inornata (Boulenger, 1890) from Sumatra: redescription, molecular identity, and taxonomic implications

scientific article published on 4 June 2019

Seven new species of Night Frogs (Anura, Nyctibatrachidae) from the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot of India, with remarkably high diversity of diminutive forms.

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Stictocardia sivarajanii, a New Species of Convolvulaceae from Kerala, India

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Systematics and phylogeny of Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Anura, Rhacophoridae) in the Western Ghats of India, with descriptions of 12 new species

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Systematics of the caecilian family Chikilidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) with the description of three new species of Chikila from northeast India

scientific article (publication date: 4 June 2013)

Tadpole consumption is a direct threat to the endangered purple frog, Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis

scholarly article in Salamandra, vol. 51 no. 3, 2015

Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Notes on the Hedyotis corymbosa: diffusa Complex (Rubiaceae) in India

scientific article (publication date: November 1990)

Taxonomic review of the Asian Horned Frogs (Amphibia: Megophrys Kuhl & Van Hasselt) of Northeast India and Bangladesh previously misidentified as M. parva (Boulenger), with descriptions of three new species

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

Taxonomic review of the tree frog genus Rhacophorus from the Western Ghats, India (Anura: Rhacophoridae), with description of ontogenetic colour changes and reproductive behaviour

scientific article (publication date: 4 April 2013)

Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Some Indian Species of Hedyotis (Rubiaceae)

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The curious case of Charles Darwin’s frog, Rana charlesdarwini Das, 1998: Phylogenetic position and generic placement, with taxonomic insights on other minervaryan frogs (Dicroglossidae: Minervarya) in the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago

scientific article published in 2022

The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)

scientific article (publication date: 19 March 2015)

The impact of conservation on the status of the world's vertebrates

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The vocal repertoire of Pseudophilautus kani, a shrub frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats of India

Three new species of horned frogs, Megophrys (Amphibia: Megophryidae), from northeast India, with a resolution to the identity of Megophrys boettgeri populations reported from the region

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2013)

Three new species of striped Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from the northeast Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland

scientific article (publication date: 19 October 2009)

Toad radiation reveals into-India dispersal as a source of endemism in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot

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Two New Philautus (Anura: Ranidae: Rhacophorinae) from Ponmudi Hill in the Western Ghats of India

scientific article published in February 2005

Unearthing the Fossorial Tadpoles of the Indian Dancing Frog Family Micrixalidae.

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Vocal Behavior of the Ponmudi Bush Frog (Raorchestes graminirupes): Repertoire and Individual Variation

Vocal behavior of the elusive purple frog of India (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), a fossorial species endemic to the Western Ghats

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