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Hylarana parkeriana (Mertens, 1938)

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

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Rana albolabris acutirostris Parker, 1936, Novit. Zool., 40: 141. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation. Type locality: "Congulu" (= Congolo), western Angola. Preoccupied by Rana fusca acutirostris Fatio, 1872.

Rana albolabris parkeriana Mertens, 1938, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 442: 14. Replacement name for Rana albolabris acutirostris.

Rana albolabris parkeriana Loveridge, 1941, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 91: 113. Replacement name for Rana albolabris acutirostris. Junior objective homonym of Rana albolabris parkeriana Mertens, 1938.

Hylarana parkeriana — Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 844.

Rana parkeriana —Perret In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 509.

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

Rana (Amnirana) parkeriana — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324.

Amnirana parkeriana — Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 270. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33. See comment under Ranidae record.

Hydrophylax parkerianus — 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.

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

English Names

Congolo Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).

Parker's White-lipped Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 270).

Distribution

Western Angola in lowland forest and swampy areas along the coast.

Comment

In the Rana (Amnirana) albolabris group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. Discussed by Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 844, as Hylarana parkeriana. See account (as Amnirana parkeriana) by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 270-271.

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