Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana modesta Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 25. Syntypes: BMNH, including animal figured on pl. 1, fig. 3, in the original; BMNH 1947.2.3.32 and 1947.2.3.52-61, according to Menzies, 1987, Aust. J. Zool., 35: 387. Type locality: "Gorontalo" and "Manado", Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Rana (Rana) modesta — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 6. Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 176.

Dicroglossus modestus — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 138.

Rana (Euphlyctis) modesta — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 239. by implication.

Euphlyctis modesta — Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 124. by implication.

Limnonectes (Limnonectes) modestus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 63.

English Names

Moluccas Wart Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 100).

Distribution

Sulawesi, Ceram, and Moluccas (Indonesia).

Comment

See comment under Limnonectes microtympanum and Limnonectes magnus. See accounts by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 46, and Menzies, 1987, Aust. J. Zool., 35: 373-418 (who suggested that the Sulwesi and Ceram populations might represent different taxa). In the Limnonectes (Limnonectes) grunniens group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 63. Koch, Arida, Riyanto, and Böhme, 2009, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 56: 107-129, reported a similar population (as Limnonectes cf modestus) from the Talaud Islands, Indonesia. McLeod, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 991-1000, suggested that nominal Limnonectes modestus is composed of a complex of species. Wanger, Motzke, Saleh, and Iskandar, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 17-29, reported the species from central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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