Rana (Sylvirana) faber Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 475. Holotype: MNHNP 2001.0261, by original designation. Type locality: "Phnom Aural in the Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary, Kampong Speu Province, Southwest Cambodia (UTM 1328200N 0307700E) . . . . in hill evergreen forest at an altitude of 710 m a.m.s.l.".
Hylarana faber — 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 faber — 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.
Hylarana faber — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3. by implication.
Hylarana (Sylvirana) faber — Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2008, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 33: 206.
None noted.
Known only from the vicinity of the type locality in the Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary, Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia.
Most similar to Rana nigrovittata and Rana mortenseni according to the original publication. Stuart and Emmett, 2006, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 109: 8-9, provided records for the Cadamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia, and noted errors in previous literature. Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2008, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 33: 199-206, provided a key to the close relatives of this species.
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