Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana elberti Roux, 1911, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 30: 504. Holotype: SMF 4470 (formerly 1062.1a) according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 45. Type locality: "Wetar Iliwaki", Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.

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

Rana (Hylarana) elberti — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 200. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication.

Rana (Papurana) elberti — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 325.

Sylvirana elberti — 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.

Hylarana elberti — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3. by implication.

Papurana elberti — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.

English Names

Lesser Sundas Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Distribution

Timor and Wetar I., Sunda Is., Indonesia and East Timor.

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 the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Papurana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. See Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 142; Menzies, 1987, Aust. J. Zool., 35: 373-418. See comment under Limnonectes timorensis.

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