Micryletta inornata (Boulenger, 1890)
Microhyla inornata Boulenger, 1890, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1890: 37. Syntypes: including BMNH 89.11.12.30 (according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 145) and BMNH 89.11.12.4 (according to R.F. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 386). Type locality: "Deli" or "Langahat", Sumatra, Indonesia.
Microhyla inornata inornata — Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 543.
Microhyla inornata lineata Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 546. Holotype: EHT 35534, by original designation; now FMNH 178245 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "10 km. West of Nakhon Si Thammarat", Thailand.
Micryletta inornata — Dubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 4.
English Names
Deli Paddy Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).
False Ornate Narrow-mouthed Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 57).
Deli Little Pygmy Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 296).
Inornate Froglet (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 106).
Boulenger's Ornate Narrow-mouthed Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 68).
Distribution
Manipur, India, through Myanmar, uplands of Thailand, and extreme southern Yunnan (China) to Malaya and Sumatra; reported from the Nicobar and Andaman Is. (India).
Comment
See (as Microhyla inornata) Pillai, 1977, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 86: 135, Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 543-548; and Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 122-123. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 241-243 (as Microhyla inornata); and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 296-297, provided accounts. See comment under Micrhyletta steinegeri. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 40-41, provided a brief account (as Microhyla inornata) for the Andaman and Nicobar Is. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 66. Reported for southwestern Cambodia by Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 465-481. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 49, commented on the range in Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 106-107, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 47, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 476, provided specific localities for Laos. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 62-63, provided relevant literature for Indian population. Stuart and Emmett, 2006, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 109: 7, provided a record for the Cadamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 125-126, provided a brief account (as Microhyla inornata) for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 917-920, provided an account and spot map for China. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 68-69, provided a brief characterization and photograph and noted the Manipur, northeastern India, record. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 489, provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens and habitat. Matsui, Hamidy, Belabut, Ahmad, Panha, Sudin, Khonsue, Oh, Yong, Jiang, and Nishikawa, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 167-176, suggested on the basis of mtDNA that this nominal species may contain cryptic species, one of which may be more closely related to Microhyla steinegeri.
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