Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Microhyla annectens Boulenger, 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 6: 188. Syntypes: "several specimens" Selangor Mus.( now MNM), and BMNH 1900. 6. 14. 34-35 (according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 130; now renumbered as BMNH 1947.2.11.68-69 according to R.F. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 385); ZRC 1.125-126 are syntypes according to Das and Lim, 2001, Raffles Bull. Zool., 49: 8. Type locality: "Larut Hills at 4000 feet", Perak, Malaysia (Malaya).

Microhyla (Microhyla) annectens — Dubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 3.

English Names

Larut Hills Rice Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).

Brown Narrow-mouthed Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 158).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand and Malaya; Borneo; southern Sulu Archipelago (Tawitawi I.), Philippines.

Comment

Subgenus Microhyla, Microhyla berdmorei group. See Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 540-541, Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 117-118, and Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 511-511. See comment under Microhyla borneensis. Gaulke, 1995, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 6: 49-52, provided the Sulu Archipelago record. See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 11. See comment under Microhyla palmipes. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 46, to compare this species with other microhylids in the Sunda Shelf region.

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