Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana jimiensis Tyler, 1963, Rec. Aust. Mus., 26: 126. Holotype: AMS R14711, by original designation. Type locality: "Manjim, Ganz River", Jimi River Valley, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

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

Rana (Tylerana) jimiensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329.

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

Tylerana jimiensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33. See comment under Ranidae record.

English Names

Jimi River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Distribution

Central and western New Guinea in the Sepik, Ramu, and Jimi River systems north of the central mountain range.

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 Hylarana, subgenus Tylerana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. See Menzies, 1987, Aust. J. Zool., 35: 373-418. See also Donnellan, Adams, and Aplin, 1989, Herpetologica, 45: 336-343, for taxonomic concerns. Günther, 2003, Faun. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd., Dresden, 24: 215, discussed the range and provided new records. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided records from West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 69, provided a brief account. Donnellan, Aplin, and Bertozzi, 2010, Zootaxa, 2496: 49-62, documented the distinctiveness of this species from Hylarana arfaki on the basis of molecular evidence and discussed the range.

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