Minervarya chilapata sp. nov. Holophoront. ZSI A 10784, adult male (SVL 20.3 mm), collected on 29 July 2007 by Subhadip Paul and Kaushik Deuti. Onymotope. Beside rainwater pools alongside forest road inside Mendabari Beat of Chilapata Reserve Forest (26°36’N, 89°24’E), Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal State, India. Paratopophoronts. ZSI A 10785 —A 10793, 7 adult males and 2 adult females, collected by Anand Kumar Ayyaswamy and Kaushik Deuti at the same locality as the holophoront. Description of holophoront. ZSI A 10784, adult male (Fig. 1). (A) Size and general aspect. (1) Specimen of small size (SVL 20.3 mm), body moderately slender. (B) Head. (2) Head of moderate size, longer (HL 7.9 mm) than wide (HW 6.5 mm; MN 7.24 mm; MFE 5.79 mm; MBE 3.16 mm), convex. (3) Snout pointed, protruding, its length (SL 3.44 mm) longer than horizontal diameter of eye (EL 2.92 mm). (4) Canthus rostralis rounded, loreal region concave, angle to upper surface of snout rather vertical. (5) Interorbital space convex, larger (IUE 1.94 mm) than upper eyelid (UEW 1.88 mm) and narrower than internarial distance (IN 2.01 mm); distance between front of eyes (IFE 4.21 mm) three quarter of distance between back of eyes (IBE 5.64 mm). (6) Nostrils rounded, with flap of skin laterally, closer to eye (EN 1.56 mm) than to tip of snout (NS 1.62 mm). (7) Pupil indistinct. (8) Tympanum (TYD 1.36 mm) poorly distinct, rounded; less than half of eye diameter, tympanum-eye distance (TYE 0.71 mm) half its diameter. (9) Pineal ocellus present, between anterior borders of eyes. (10) Vomerine ridge absent. (11) Tongue rather large, cordate, emarginate; median lingual process absent; tooth like projections on maxilla absent. (C) Forelimbs. (12) Arm short, rather strong (FLL 4.41 mm), shorter than hand (HAL 4.67 mm), not enlarged. (13) Fingers short, thin (TFL 2.72 mm). (14) Relative length of fingers, shortest to longest: I

Published as part of Ohler, Annemarie, Deuti, Kaushik, Grosjean, Stéphane, Paul, Subhadip, Ayyaswamy, Anand Kumar, Ahmed, Firoz & Dutta, Sushil K., 2009, Small-sized dicroglossids from India, with the description of a new species from West Bengal, India, pp. 43-56 in Zootaxa 2209 on pages 45-50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189799