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Hylarana margariana Anderson, 1879

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hylarana

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Hylarana margariana Anderson, 1879 "1878", Anat. Zool. Res.: 846. Syntypes: 2 specimens possibly in the BMNH but not mentioned by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 58; probably lost, according to Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 335. Type locality: "in a hill stream debouching into the Irawady, in the second defile", Myanmar.

Lymnodytes margariana — Mason, 1882, Burma, Ed. 3: 291.

Rana margariana — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 58.

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

Rana (Sylvirana) margariana — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Hylarana margariana — 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 margariana — 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.

English Names

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

Distribution

Myanmar.

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 Sylvirana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. See brief account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 334-335.

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