Title
Comment on “Scaling new heights: first record of Boulenger’s Lazy Toad Scutiger boulengeri (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from high altitude lake in Sikkim Himalaya, India” by Barkha Subba, G. Ravikanth & N.A. Aravind (2015)
Author(s)
Seimon, T.A. ;Seimon, A.
Published
2015
Publisher
Journal of Threatened Taxa
Abstract
Much research over the past decade has been dedicated to understanding the elevation limits of species in the context of climatic change. Due to their heightened environmental sensitivities, amphibians represent especially good indicator species for observing how climate change can shift species distributions (Raxworthy et al. 2008). In the paper published recently by Subba et al. (2015), the authors reference an assertion by Hock (1964) that frogs in the genus Scutiger are the highest altitude frogs. They report the presence of Scutiger boulengeri at an elevation of 5,270m, which, according to the authors represents a new elevational record for the highest altitude frog documented worldwide.

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