Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana (Hylorana) sauriceps Rao, 1937, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 6: 396. Holotype: CCB; now lost according to Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 155. Type locality: "Wattekole, Coorg [Mysore], S. India".

Rana (Fejervarya) sauriceps — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 155.

Limnonectes (Fejervarya) sauriceps — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 61.

Fejervarya sauriceps — Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 71. by implication; Dubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 35; Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 93.

Zakerana sauriceps — Howlader, 2011, Bangladesh Wildl. Bull., 5: 2.

English Names

Mysore Wart Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 100; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 22).

Lizard-headed Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Mysore, Karnataka), southern India.

Comment

Subgenus Hylarana according to the original publication, but Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 155, on the basis of the illustration, suggested that it resembled a member of the subgenus Fejervarya. Considered incertae sedis within Fejervarya by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 61, without discussion. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 132, provided a brief account (as Rana sauriceps). Considered as "invalid" according to Matsui, Toda, and Ota, 2008 "2007", Curr. Herpetol., 26: 73, but without associating the name with a known living population. Purkayastha and Matsui, 2012, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 3: 32, also reported this taxon as "invalid".

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