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Rana altilabris Blyth, 1856

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Fejervarya

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Rana altilabris Blyth, 1856 "1855", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24: 720. Type(s): Not stated, presumed to be ZSIC; considered lost by Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 152. Type locality: "Pegu" (= Bago), Myanmar; given as "Schwe Gyen on the Sitang River, Pegu", Myanmar by XXX. Considered by Theobald, 1868, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 37: 80, to be a synonym of Rana vittigera, but considered a nomen dubium by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 7, and Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 152. Considered incertae sedis within or a synonym of a species of Fejervarya by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 61; without discussion. * Limnonectes (Fejervarya) altilabris— Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 61; by implication. * Fejervarya altilabris— Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 71; by implication; Dubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 35; Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 92. COMMENT: Name not associated with a biological population of frogs; see Dubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 15-50, for discussion. Considered "invalid" by Matsui, Toda, and Ota, 2008 "2007", Curr. Herpetol., 26: 73, but without associating the name with a known living population.

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