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Gujarat isone of the diversif ied landscaped statesof India, which iscovered bydrydeciduous forest in north, westand eastern parts, moist deciduous forest from the southern part, coastal belt in the west and desert covering from north to western edge (Champion & Seth, 1968). Anuran fauna is ever supposed as tremendous but mysterious fauna. Amphibians belong to the superclass Tetrapoda. Class amphibia classif ied into three orders viz. apoda, anura and urodela (Boulenger, 1890; Daniel & Sekar, 1989; Dutta, 1997). The current study depicts the status of anurans (frogs and toads) in Polo forest of Sabarkantha district, Gujarat state. Polo is one of the most cash forests with a higher amount of timber vegetation, which has some very good patches of and many other timber plants. The study area is having a good population of amphibians due toVanaj irrigationdam in thecentral partof the forest. It is famous tourism destination due to its archaeological importance. Sarkar (1984), Naik & Vinod (1993), Sarkar & Ray (2000) were the pioneer of describing the anurans of north Gujarat including Sabarkantha. After Sarkar & Ray (2000), a very long gap made us more enthusiast towards the inventory of anurans checklist. Variations among Tectona grandis species population could be based on temporal changes (Hanski, 1982). The present research will provide the baseline information on the anurans in the study area and f ill the gap of information as well as give direction for future research on herpetofauna in the study area. We have documented ten species of amphibians, including two toads and eight frogs among which two were considered asa newrecord from thisarea. The study area is located in the north-eastern part of Gujarat state, Sabarkantha district a wildlife division. The forest covers approximately 400km of the area. The area was surveyed in core and buffer zone of the forest with around 600 km2 of dry deciduous vegetation. The study area is entitled as reserved forest (Rodgers 2000), which shares one boundary with Fulwari ki naal wildlife sanctuaryof Rajasthanstate. It is a preliminary work carried out during our f ield survey for sloth bear occurrence through strip transects during which the amphibians were also been recorded through visual encounters. Moreover, we also used sonotaxonomical methods to locate the anurans (Sharma, 2015). 2 et al., Methodology: Anurans are very mysterious fauna of animal kingdom. The current study represents the preliminary checklist of frogs and toads of Polo forest, a reserved forest of north Gujarat, mostly covered by dry deciduous vegetation. Our literature survey revealed that the herpetofauna including anurans is least explored fauna in northern Gujarat except few stray notes and checklist prepared before almost two decades hence there are vital chances in the change in species composition with respect to lesserknown fauna like amphibians. The area was surveyed by line and strip transects as well as visual encounter and sono-taxonomical methods in order to record the presence of anuran species. The study shows ten species of anurans belonging to four families; among which two are newly recorded species in this area. The study can be an initiation to arrange baseline data regarding anuran’s checklist, which can be extended to all the herpetofauna and other diversity too. Taxonomy of unidentif ied anuran species can also be determined in future. Ambient Science, 2017: Vol. 04(1); 78-81 DOI:10.21276/ambi.2017.04.1.ra05

Anurans in Polo Reserved Forests of Gujarat state, India: Two New Geographical Records.