Leptobrachium abbotti (Cochran, 1926)
Megophrys abbotti Cochran, 1926, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 16: 446. Holotype: USNM 39097, by original designation. Type locality: "Balik Papan Bay, Eastern Borneo", Indonesia.
Leptobrachium abbotti — Inger, Stuebing, and Tan, 1995, Raffles Bull. Zool., 43: 125, 128.
Leptobrachium (Leptobrachium) abbotti — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 22. Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 12.
English Names
Lowland Litter Frog (Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 154; Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 33).
Distribution
Lowlands of Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia), Brunei, and Kalimantan (Indonesia), Borneo (see comment).
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Leptobrachium hasseltii by Inger, Stuebing, and Tan, 1995, Raffles Bull. Zool., 43: 125, where it had been placed by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 29. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 68-69, to compare this species with other megophryids in the Sunda Shelf region. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 91-93, provided an account. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 154, provided a brief description. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 33, provided a photograph and a brief account. Hamidy, Matsui, Shimada, Nishikawa, Yambun, Sudin, Kusrini, and Kurniati, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 904-913, suggested that this name covers at least 4 lineages, phylogenetically interdigitated with other species; the one from eastern Kalimantan likely taking the existing name (this one forming the sister taxon of one of the lineages of Leptobrachium montanum), other lineages are: (2) one from Sarawak, (3) one from Kinabalu, Sarawak, and (4) another in Sarawak as well.
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