Hylarana melanomenta (Taylor, 1920)
Rana melanomenta Taylor, 1920, Philipp. J. Sci., 16: 268. Holotype: Philippine Bureau of Science 1661; destroyed in World War II. Type locality: "Papahag [Island], Sulu [Islands]", Philippines.
Rana (Pulchrana) melanomenta — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.
Pulchrana melanomenta — 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: 369. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33. See comment under Ranidae record.
Hylarana melanomenta — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13. by implication.
English Names
Papahag Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Distribution
Papahag I., Sulu Archipelago, Philippines.
Comment
In the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Pulchrana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. Closely related to Rana similis, according to the original publication. See brief account by Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 324.
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