Hylarana moluccana (Boettger, 1895)
Rana moluccana Boettger, 1895, Zool. Anz., 18: 132. Syntypes: SMF (2 specimens); SMF 6562 noted as holotype (lectotype designation by implication) by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 45. Type locality: "Halmaheira und Ternate", Moluccan Is., Indonesia; restricted to "Ternate, Molukken" by apparent lectotype designation.
Hylorana molluccana — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144. Misspelling.
Rana papua moluccana — Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 45.
Rana (Hylarana) moluccana — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.
Rana (Papurana) moluccana — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.
Sylvirana moluccana — 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 moluccana — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3. by implication.
Papurana moluccana — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.
English Names
Moluccas Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Distribution
Moluccas, Indonesia.
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 Papurana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. Regarded as a junior synonym of Rana varians by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 165 (on the basis of specimens identified by Barbour, 1912, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 66), as a junior synonym of Rana papua by Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 201, and as a subspecies of Rana papua by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 45, suggested that the syntypes likely represented different taxa.
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