Hylarana moellendorffi (Boettger, 1893)
Rana moellendorffi Boettger, 1893, Zool. Anz., 16: 363. Holotype: SMF 1072. 2a; SMF 5432 (formerly 1072.2a) designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 45, apparently in error. Type locality: "Insel Culion, Calamanianes-Gruppe, Philippinen".
Rana (Hylorana) moellendorffi — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 126, 180.
Rana signata moellendorffi — Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 312-322.
Rana (Hylarana) moellendorffi — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.
Rana (Pulchrana) moellendorffi — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326 (no discussion).
Rana moellendorffi — Brown and Guttman, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 424.
Pulchrana moellendorffi — 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 moellendorffi — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13. by implication.
English Names
Culion Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Distribution
Lower montane and lowland forests of the Palawan Island group (including Balabac, Palawan, Busuanga, Coron, Culion, Caluit, and possibly other island connected to Palawan in the Pleistocene), Philippines.
Comment
In the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Pulchrana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326, who removed from the synonym of Rana signata, where it had been placed by Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 226. See discussion and account by Brown and Guttman, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 393-461. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Rana moellendorffi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 633.
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