Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana darlingi Boulenger, 1902, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1902: 15. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Mazöe and between Umtali [Mutare] and Marandellas [= Marondera]", Mashonaland, Zimbabwe.

Rana (Rana) darlingi — Monard, 1937 "1936", Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 62: 44.

Rana albolabris adiscifera — Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 48. Holotype: FMNH 21171, by original designation. Type locality: "Chitau, Angola". Synonymy by Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 132; Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 843.

Hylarana darlingi — Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 119.

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

Rana (Amnirana) darlingi — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324.

Amnirana darlingi — Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33. See comment under Ranidae record.

Hydrophylax darlingi — 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: 368.

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

English Names

Golden-backed Frog (Broadley, 1971, Puku, 6: 113; Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23; Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 100).

Darling's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Darling's Golden-backed Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 452).

Darling's White-lipped Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266).

Distribution

Savanna of Angola, Shaba (Dem. Rep. Congo), extreme northern Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, southern Malawi, and western Mozambique.

Comment

Sole member of the Rana (Amnirana) darlingi group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. See Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 119, and Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 843. See also Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 132. See accounts by Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 139-140 (as Hylarana darlingi). Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266-268, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 87-88 (as Amnirana darlingi), and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 452-453. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 298-299, provided an account for Malawi. Conradie, Tweddle, Mäkinen, and Bills, 2012, Zootaxa, 3441: 56-58. reported on larval morphology.

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