Microhyla rubra (Jerdon, 1854)
Engystoma rubrum Jerdon, 1854 "1853", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 22: 534. Type(s): Not stated, presumably originally in ZSIC although not reported in type lists; reported as lost by Jerdon, 1870, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1870: 67. Type locality: "in the Carnatic near rivers, in sandy banks . . . also Ceylon", southern India and Sri Lanka.
Copea fulva Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 286. Syntypes: NHMW 16384. 1-2, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 15, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 18. Type locality: "Brasilien", in error according to Parker, 1932, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 10: 341, who made the synonymy.
Microhyla rubra — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 164.
Microhyla fulva — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 156.
Microhyla (Diplopelma) rubra — Dubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 4.
English Names
Guangdong Rice Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).
Red Narrow-mouthed Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 56).
Red Narrow-mouth Frog (De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 80).
Densely Spotted Microhylid Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 42).
Jerdon's Narrow-mouthed Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 68).
Distribution
India (Goa, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, and West Bengal) to Magwe Division, western Myanmar; Sri Lanka; possibly in Bangladesh and Nepal; .
Comment
Subgenus Diplopelma. See accounts by Kirtisinghe, 1957, Amph. Ceylon: 92-94; and Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 38. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 61-62, provided relevant literature. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 42, provided a brief account. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 193-194, provided an account for a Kaloula species similar to Kaloula rubra in Nepal. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 126-129, provided an account for peninsular India. Wogan, Vindum, Wilkinson, Koo, Slowinski, Win, Thin, Kyi, Oo, Lwin, and Shein, 2008, Hamadryad, 33: 84-86, provided the first record for Magwe Division, western Myanmar. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 68, provided a brief characterization and photographs. De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 80, provided a brief account and color photograph.
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