Hylarana siberu (Dring, McCarthy, and Whitten, 1990)
Rana siberu Dring, McCarthy, and Whitten, 1990, Indo-Malayan Zool., 6: 124. Holotype: BMNH 1979.306, by original designation. Type locality: "Teitei Bulak, Sabeuleleu, Siberut [Island], 1° 21′S, 98° 59′E", Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.
Rana (Pulchrana) siberu — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.
Rana siberu — Brown and Guttman, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 424.
Pulchrana siberu — 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 siberu — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13. by implication.
English Names
Siberut Island Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).
Distribution
Siberut Island, Mentawai island group, and possibly montane forested regions of Sumatra (Bengkulu, Barisan Selatan, and Jambi); Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia.
Comment
In the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Pulchrana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 84-86, to compare this species to other ranids of the Sunda Shelf region. See discussion and account by Brown and Guttman, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 393-461, who noted the possibility of occurrence in Sumatra. Leong and Lim, 2004, Raffles Bull. Zool., 52: 261-263, provided the record from Peninsular Malaysia. Chan and Norhayati, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 294-301, provided an account for peninsular Malaysia, reported it from Kuala Gandah, Pahag, and commented on the range.
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