Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana aurantiaca Boulenger, 1904, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 15: 430. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.2.92 (formerly 1903.9.26.1) according to Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 155. Type locality: "near Trivandrum, Travancore [Kerala]", southern India.

Rana (Hylorana) aurantiaca — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127-130.

Rana (Hylorana) bhagmandlensis Rao, 1922, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 28: 441. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.2.12; BMNH 1947.2.2.12 unnecessarily designated lectotype by Dutta, 1990, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 87: 310. Type locality: "Water course in the forests of Bhagamandla, Coorg, 4000 feet", Mysore, India. Synonymy by Dutta, 1990, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 87: 310. Synonymy not accepted; without discussion, by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Rana (Hylarana) aurantiaca — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.

Rana (Hylarana) bhagmandlensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.

Rana (Sylvirana) aurantiaca — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Rana (Sylvirana) bhagmandlensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Hylarana aurantiaca — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237. by implication; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3; by implication.

Sylvirana aurantiaca — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 370. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.

Sylvirana bhagmandlensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. Undiscussed recognition. See comment under Ranidae record.

English Names

Golden Frog (Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 198; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 228; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 74; Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 88).

Trivandrum Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Small Wood Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 231).

Distribution

South India (Western Ghats in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu) and soutwestern Sri Lanka, below 1440 m elevation.

Comment

Prior to the revision of Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, placed in Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Sylvirana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. See accounts by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 157, Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 198, and Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 119-123. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 17, suggested that careful comparison of the Sri Lankan and South Indian populations are warranted. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 86-89, provided a brief account. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 155, provided range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 228-231, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana aurantiaca) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 501. De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 88, provided a brief account and color photograph. Bopage, Wewalwala, Krvavac, Jovanovic, Safarek, and Pushpamal, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 173-177, reported the species in lowland forest in the Kanneliya Forest of southwestern Sri Lanka.

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