Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylarana Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 37. Type species: Hyla erythraea Schlegel, 1827, by monotypy.

Limnodytes Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 510. Substitute name for Hylarana Tschudi, 1838.

Hydrophylax Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31. Type species: Rana malabarica Tschudi, 1838, by original designation. Implied synonymy with Rana by Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 11. Synonymy with Rana by Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 48. Considered a subsection (roughly a supergenus) of Rana by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. Synonymy with Hylarana by Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3.

Zoodioctes Gistel, 1848, Naturgesch. Thierr.: xi. Substitute name for Hylarana Tschudi, 1838.

Hylorana — Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 425. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Hylarana Tschudi, 1838.

Tenuirana Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 139. Type species: Rana taipehensis Van Denburgh, 1909, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Hylarana. Considered a subjective synonymy of Hylarana by Ohler and Mallick, 2003 "2002", Hamadryad, 27: 62.

Amnirana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. Type species: Rana amnicola Perret, 1977, by original designation. Proposed originally as a subgenus of Rana. Considered a genus by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266. Synonymy with Hydrophylax by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 248. Synonymy with Hylarana by Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3.

Chalcorana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326-327. Type species: Hyla chalconota Schlegel, 1837, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Rana. Synonymy by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 248. Synonymy with Hylarana by Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3.

Pulchrana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. Type species: Polypedates signatus Günther, 1872, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Rana. Synonymy with Hylarana by Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3.

Sylvirana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. Type species: Lymnodytes nigrovittatus Blyth, 1855, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Rana. Synonymy with Hylarana by Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3.

Papurana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 325. Type species: Rana papua Lesson, 1830, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Rana. Synonymy with Sylvirana by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 248.

Tylerana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. Type species: Rana jimiensis Tyler, 1963, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Rana. Günther, 2003, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 79: 207, doubted the distinctiveness of this taxon from Papurana. Synonymy with Sylvirana by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 248.

Boulengerana Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 21. Type species: Rana guentheri Boulenger, 1882. See comment under Ranidae record.

English Names

White-lipped Frogs (Amnirana [now part of Hylarana]: Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 255).

Golden-backed Frogs (Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 450).

Distribution

In two broadly disjunct areas: 1) savannas from Senegal to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia south to Mozambique; 2) Tropical Asia from Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats of southwestern India through eastern India and Nepal to southern China (including Taiwan and Hainan), through the Indo-Australian Archipelago to the Philippines, New Guinea and northern Australia.

Comment

Hylarana was considered a genus (and redelimited) most recently by Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237, and Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 248, who provided a long taxonomic history of this nominal taxon and a partial revision. Bossuyt, Brown, Hillis, Cannatella, and Milinkovitch, 2006, Syst. Biol., 55: 584, provided evidence that Hylarana (sensu Frost et al., 2006) is imbedded within a paraphyletic Sylvirana. Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324, considered his subgenera Hydrophylax and Amnirana to be in a subsection Hydrophylax of his section Hylarana, and Chalcorana in the same section, but subsection Hylarana. Matsui, Shimada, Ota, and Tanaka-Ueno, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 37: 733-742, and Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 1-370, found this system of sections and subsections (and some subgenera) to be poorly correlated with evolutionary history. Amnirana was recognized as a genus by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266. Synonymies of African species of "Hylarana" provided by Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 842-844. Rödel and Bangoura, 2004, Tropical Zool., 17: 201-232, provided a key to the species of West Africa (as Amnirana). Bossuyt, Brown, Hillis, Cannatella, and Milinkovitch, 2006, Syst. Biol., 55: 584, provided evidence for the polyphyly of Hydrophylax; in their results Hydrophylax luzonensis (now Sanguirana luzonensis) is most closely related to Sanguirana sanguinea and with Hydrophylax galamensis and Hydrophylax chalconota imbedded within another group containing Pulchrana and at least one species of Sylvirana (nicobariensis). Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, plraced Hydrophylax (sensu Frost et al., 2006) into the synonymy of Hylarana. See comment under Humerana, which likely renders Hylarana, in the sense of this catalogue, paraphyletic. Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 250, retained Pulchrana as a genus, pending its phylogenetic placement, and rejected the system of sections and subsections suggested by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61. Brown and Guttman, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 393-461, discussed the phylogenetics of the Rana signata complex (Pulchrana) of the Philippines and Borneo. Bossuyt, Brown, Hillis, Cannatella, and Milinkovitch, 2006, Syst. Biol., 55: 584, provided evidence that Pulchrana is imbedded within a paraphyletic Sylvirana. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, provided evidence that Pulchrana is imbedded within Hydrophylax (including Chalcorana) of Frost et al. (2006) and they regarded it as a junior synonym of Hylarana. Bossuyt, Brown, Hillis, Cannatella, and Milinkovitch, 2006, Syst. Biol., 55: 584, provided evidence for the paraphyly of Sylvirana, with with respect to Pulchrana, Hylarana (e.g., Hylarana erythraea) and elements of Hydrophylax (e.g., Hydrophylax galamensis, Hydrophylax chalconota, sensu Frost et al., 2006) imbedded within it. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3, regarded Sylvirana as a junior synonym of Hylarana. Kraus and Allison, 2007, Herpetol. Monogr., 21: 33-75, reviewed the Hylarana papua species group (as Rana papua) in Papua New Guinea. Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2008, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 33: 199-206, provided a key to the species of the Hylarana nigrovittata group in China. See comment under Rana cangyuanensis. Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217-1231, presented results that suggest that Hylarana (sensu Che et al., 2007) is paraphyletic with respect to Sanguirana, Glandirana, Rana, and Lithobates, suggesting that partitions of this nominal taxon should be expected. Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 450-455, provided accounts and a key for the species of southern Africa. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1124-1196, provided keys and accounts and suggested a system of subgenera (including Babina of this catalog) and species groups not formally substantiated by synapomorphy. Donnellan, Aplin, and Bertozzi, 2010, Zootaxa, 2496: 49-62, reported on phylogenetics of the New Guinean species, and noted that Papurana is paraphyletic with respect to Tylerana. Kurabayashi, Yoshikawa, Sato, Hayashi, Oumi, Fujii, and Sumida, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 543-553, suggested that Hylarana is close to Glandirana. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences confirmed the likely monophyly (see comments under Humerana and Pterorana) of Hylarana although this is obscured by their adoption of an antiquated and non-monophyletic taxonomy (e.g., recognizing Amnirana which renders Hylarana paraphyletic on their tree and considering Pelophylax and Babina to be a synonyms of Rana, which renders Rana non-monophyletic on their tree.

Contained taxa

• Hylarana albolabris (Hallowell, 1856)
• Hylarana albotuberculata (Inger, 1954)
• Hylarana amnicola Perret, 1977
• Hylarana arfaki (Meyer, 1875)
• Hylarana asperrima Perret, 1977
• Hylarana attigua (Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999)
• Hylarana aurantiaca (Boulenger, 1904)
• Hylarana aurata (Günther, 2003)
• Hylarana banjarana (Leong and Lim, 2003)
• Hylarana baramica (Boettger, 1900)
• Hylarana celebensis (Peters, 1872)
• Hylarana chalconota (Schlegel, 1837)
• Hylarana chitwanensis (Das, 1998)
• Hylarana crassiovis (Boulenger, 1920)
• Hylarana cubitalis (Smith, 1917)
• Hylarana daemeli (Steindachner, 1868)
• Hylarana darlingi (Boulenger, 1902)
• Hylarana debussyi (Van Kampen, 1910)
• Hylarana elberti (Roux, 1911)
• Hylarana erythraea (Schlegel, 1837)
• Hylarana eschatia (Inger, Stuart, and Iskandar, 2009)
• Hylarana faber (Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002)
• Hylarana florensis (Boulenger, 1897)
• Hylarana fonensis (Rödel and Bangoura, 2004)
• Hylarana galamensis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
• Hylarana garoensis (Boulenger, 1920)
• Hylarana garritor (Menzies, 1987)
• Hylarana glandulosa (Boulenger, 1882)
• Hylarana gracilis (Gravenhorst, 1829)
• Hylarana grandocula (Taylor, 1920)
• Hylarana grisea (Van Kampen, 1913)
• Hylarana guentheri (Boulenger, 1882)
• Hylarana hekouensis Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2008
• Hylarana jimiensis (Tyler, 1963)
• Hylarana kampeni (Boulenger, 1920)
• Hylarana kreffti (Boulenger, 1882)
• Hylarana labialis (Boulenger, 1887)
• Hylarana lateralis (Boulenger, 1887)
• Hylarana laterimaculata (Barbour and Noble, 1916)
• Hylarana latouchii (Boulenger, 1899)
• Hylarana lemairei (De Witte, 1921)
• Hylarana leptoglossa (Cope, 1868)
• Hylarana lepus (Andersson, 1903)
• Hylarana longipes (Perret, 1960)
• Hylarana luctuosa (Peters, 1871)
• Hylarana macrodactyla Günther, 1858
• Hylarana macrops (Boulenger, 1897)
• Hylarana malabarica (Tschudi, 1838)
• Hylarana mangyanum (Brown and Guttman, 2002)
• Hylarana maosonensis Bourret, 1937
• Hylarana margariana Anderson, 1879
• Hylarana megalonesa (Inger, Stuart, and Iskandar, 2009)
• Hylarana melanomenta (Taylor, 1920)
• Hylarana menglaensis Fei, Ye, and Xie, 2008
• Hylarana milleti (Smith, 1921)
• Hylarana milneana (Loveridge, 1948)
• Hylarana mocquardi (Werner, 1901)
• Hylarana moellendorffi (Boettger, 1893)
• Hylarana moluccana (Boettger, 1895)
• Hylarana montivaga (Smith, 1921)
• Hylarana mortenseni (Boulenger, 1903)
• Hylarana nicobariensis (Stoliczka, 1870)
• Hylarana nigrovittata (Blyth, 1856)
• Hylarana novaeguineae (Van Kampen, 1909)
• Hylarana occidentalis (Perret, 1960)
• Hylarana papua (Lesson, 1826)
• Hylarana parkeriana (Mertens, 1938)
• Hylarana parvacola (Inger, Stuart, and Iskandar, 2009)
• Hylarana persimilis (Van Kampen, 1923)
• Hylarana picturata (Boulenger, 1920)
• Hylarana raniceps (Peters, 1871)
• Hylarana rawa Matsui, Mumpuni, and Hamidy, 2012
• Hylarana rufipes (Inger, Stuart, and Iskandar, 2009)
• Hylarana scutigera (Andersson, 1916)
• Hylarana siberu (Dring, McCarthy, and Whitten, 1990)
• Hylarana signata (Günther, 1872)
• Hylarana similis (Günther, 1873)
• Hylarana spinulosa (Smith, 1923)
• Hylarana supragrisea (Menzies, 1987)
• Hylarana taipehensis (Van Denburgh, 1909)
• Hylarana temporalis (Günther, 1864)
• Hylarana tytleri Theobald, 1868
• Hylarana volkerjane (Günther, 2003)
• Hylarana waliesa (Kraus and Allison, 2007)

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