Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana malabarica Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 40, 80. Syntypes: (6 specimens) MNHN(P 771, 4439, and 4440, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 38. Type locality: "Malabar", India.

Hylarana malabarica — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 131.

Hydrophylax malabaricus — Fitzinger, 1861 "1860", Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 42: 414. 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; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.

Hylorana malabarica — Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 426.

Rana malabarica — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 60.

Rana (Rana) malabarica — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 9.

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

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

English Names

Fungoid Frog (Chari, 1962, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 59: 71; Daniel and Selukar, 1964 "1963", J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 60: 743; Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 233; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 77; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 82).

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

Distribution

Western Ghats of southwestern India; also reported from Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Maharashtra, and Meghalaya, India.

Comment

See account by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 98. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 126-127, provided a brief account and provided the distribution. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 160-161, provided a range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 233-236, provided an account. Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 77, suggested the species to occur in Assam. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 82, provided a brief characterization and photograph.

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