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Hylarana baramica (Boettger, 1900)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hylarana

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Rana baramica Boettger, 1900, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 25: 391. Syntypes: SMF (3 specimens); SMF 4331 (formerly 1069.1a) designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 44. Type locality: "Baramfluss in Nord-Borneo" (= Baram River, Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).

Rana (Hylorana) baramica — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 126, 182.

Rana (Hylarana) baramica — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 195. Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 65.

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

Pulchrana baramica — 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: 369. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33. See comment under Ranidae record.

Hylarana baramica — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13. by implication.

English Names

Masked Rough-sided Frog (Lim and Lim, 1992, Guide Amph. Rept. Singapore: 26).

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

Baram's Frog (Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 65).

Masked Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 126).

Brown Marsh Frog (Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 158; Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 59).

Distribution

Extreme southern peninsular Thailand and Malaya, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, and Bangka Island.

Comment

In the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Pulchrana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. (The sections and subsections rejected by 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: 1-370.) See accounts by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 182; Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 160-162. See also B Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 61- 62. Stuebing in Inger and Tan, 1996, Raffles Bull. Zool., 44: 561, suggested that this nominal species is a composite. See account for Java by Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 65-66, and Lim and Lim, 1992, Guide Amph. Rept. Singapore: 26. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 104-105. See Rana laterimaculata. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 126-127, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 158, provided a brief description. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 59, provided a photograph and brief account, as Rana baramica.

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