Huia cavitympanum (Boulenger, 1893)
Rana cavitympanum Boulenger, 1893, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1893: 525. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation. Type locality: "Kina Balu", Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo).
Rana (Hylorana) cavitympanum — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 126, 211.
Rana (Hylarana) cavitympanum — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 211.
Amolops cavitympanum — Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 260.
Huia cavitympanum — Yang, 1991, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 63: 27. Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 49-60.
Amolops (Huia) cavitympanum — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 321.
English Names
Sabah Huia Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99).
Distribution
Kinabalu in forest streams at 100-900 m elevation, Sabah and Sarawak (Borneo), Malaysia; presumably in adjacent Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Comment
See account (as Amolops cavitympanum) by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 260-263; (as Rana cavitympanum) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 194. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 137138, provided an account.
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