Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rhacophorus macrotis Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 7: 282. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.8.18 (formerly 91.1.27.8), according to XXX. Type locality: "Baram [district, Sarawak, Malaysia,] Borneo".

Polypedates macrotis — Günther, 1895, Novit. Zool., 2: 501. Taylor, 1920, Philipp. J. Sci., 16: 285; Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 98; Dring, 1982, in Anderson et al. (eds.), Gunung Mulu National Park: 293.

Philautus montanus Taylor, 1920, Philipp. J. Sci., 16: 305. Holotype: Philippine Bureau of Science 29, by original designation; destroyed in WWII. Type locality: "Mount Bongao, Bongao [Island], near south end of Tawitawi, at an elevation of about 700 meters", Sulu Archipelago, Philippines. Preoccupied by Ixalus montanus Günther, 1875. Synonymy by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 42.

Polypedates linki Taylor, 1922, Philipp. J. Sci., 21: 276. Holotype: EHT 1703, by original designation; now CAS 60684 according to Slevin and Leviton, 1956, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 28: 537. Type locality: "Jolo, Jolo Island", Philippines. Synonymy by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 312.

Rhacophorus (Philautus) alticola Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 95. Replacement name for Philautus montanus Taylor, 1920.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) macrotis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 141. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) lincki — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 142. Misspelling.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax linki — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 181.

Rhacophorus leucomystax linki — Inger, 1956, Fieldiana, Zool., 34: 409.

Rhacophorus (Polypedates) macrotis — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 42.

English Names

Baram Whipping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113).

Forest Bush Frog (Kiew, 1987, Malayan Nat. J., 41: 421).

Dark-eared Treefrog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 152; Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 162).

Bongao Bubble-nest Frog (Philautis montanus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Distribution

Central peninsular Thailand; Sumatra and Borneo; Sulu Archipelago; Palawan, Busuanga, Calauit, Jolo, and Dumaran islands, Philippines.

Comment

In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Polypedates. See Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 102-103, for account (as Rhacophorus macrotis). Placed in the synonymy of Rhacophorus leucomyxtax by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 178; subsequently removed by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 313, who also provided an account. See account by Brown and Alcala, 1994, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 48: 185-220, who discussed the unique destroyed holotype of Philautus montanus Taylor and suggested that this name might be a synonym of Polypedates macrotis, but hesitated to synonymize this name until the presence of Polypedates macrotis was documented from the Bongao I., Philippines. Considered a synonym of Polypedates macrotis by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 42, on the basis of the list of characters presented in the original publication and illustration.Recorded record for Thailand by Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 77; this requires confirmation. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 122-123, to compare this species to other rhacophorids of the Sunda Shelf region. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 196-197, provided an account. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 152-153, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 162, provided a brief description. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 73, provided a photograph and brief account. Brown, Linkem, Siler, Sukumaran, Esselstyn, Diesmos, Iskandar, Bickford, Evans, McGuire, Grismer, Supriatna, and Andayani, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 57: : 598-619, in discussion suggested on the basis of mtDNA data that the delimitation of this taxon may change in the future.

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