Amolops chanakya

Amolops chanakya is a cascade frog (family Ranidae) described in 2023 by researchers of the Zoological Survey of India and St Anthony's College, Shillong, from Dirang in Arunachal Pradesh. Chanakya was a 4th-century BCE scholar of the Maurya Empire. It belongs to the Indian lineage of the Amolops viridimaculatus group. (web summaries of the original description).

It was collected between 2018 and 2019. The account used here gives no elevation, size or habitat detail. (web summaries of the original description).