Polypedates maculatus (Gray, 1830)
Hyla maculata Gray, 1830, Illust. Indian Zool., Part 3: pl 82. Type(s): Based on animal pictured in original plate; possibly originally in collection of Major-General Thomas Hardwicke; location possibly in BMNH at one time, but now unknown and presumed lost. Type locality: "Bengal" [India and Bangladesh].
Bürgeria maculata Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 34, 75. Syntypes: MNHNP "No. 44" (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Küste von Malabar" (= Coast of Malabar, India). Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 88. [Note, this is not a nomen nudum as previously reported and not coined as a synonym of Hyla maculata Gray, which Tschudi considered to be a junior synonym of Polypedates leucomystax—DRF.]
Hyla Reynoudi Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 34, 75. Proposed as an objective synonym of Hyla maculata Gray, 1834, referencing the jar label name of the syntypes of Bürgeria maculata Tschudi, 1838.
Polypedates maculatus — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 78. Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 428.
Rhacophorus maculatus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 83.
Rhacophorus acanthostomus Werner, 1901, Zool. Anz., 24: 98. Holotype: ZMB. Type locality: "Ratnapura, Ceylon". Synonymy by Kirtisinghe, 1957, Amph. Ceylon: 55. S. Dutta (personal comm.) regards this synonymy as unlikely, the name more probably belonging to the synonymy of Polypedates crucifer, Polypedates eques, or Polypedates longinasus.
Rhacophorus maculatus himalayensis Annandale, 1912, Rec. Indian Mus., 8: 14. Types: ZSIC, according to Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 181, although not seen by him; MNHNP 1983.1170 designated neotype by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 85. Type locality: "The Eastern Himalays, Assam, western China". Restricted by neotype designation to "Rakshe, 2000-2070 m, Est-Népal".
Rhacophorus (Polypedates) maculatus — Bourret, 1927, Fauna Indochine, Vert., 3: 264.
Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) acanthostomus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 120.
Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) maculatus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 133. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.
Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) acanthostomus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 137.
Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax himalayensis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 137.
Rhacophorus leucomystax maculatus — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 181.
Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) maculatus himalayensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 84-85.
English Names
Spotted Tree Frog (Gray, 1830, Illust. Indian Zool., Part 1: pl. 82; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 105; De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 127).
Common Indian Tree-frog (Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 428).
Common Tree Frog (Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 199; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 164).
Spotted Whipping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113; Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 93).
Indian Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67).
Chunam Frog (Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 80; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 164; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 114).
Common Indian Tree Frog (Polypedates maculatus maculatus: Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67).
Himalayan Tree Frog (Polypedates maculatus himalayanus: Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67).
Distribution
Below 3000 m from Nepal south throughout India except Haryana, Rajasthan, and Punjab; Bangladesh; Sri Lanka.
Comment
In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Polypedates. See account (as Rhacophorus leucomystax maculatus) by Kirtisinghe, 1957, Amph. Ceylon: 55-58. Discussed by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 82-85 (who noted that this is likely a complex of species), Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 199, and Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 179-182. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 171-172, 220-221, and Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 309-310, provided brief accounts for India. Ray, 1999, Mem. Zool. Surv. India, 18: 72-77, provided an account. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 325-330, provided an account, figure, and map for the Nepal population. See brief account by Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 93-94. Sarkar, Biswas, and Ray, 1992, State Fauna Ser., 3: 92, provided a brief account for West Bengal, India. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 96-97, provided systematic notes, access to literature, and range. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 164-167, provided an account for peninsular India. Agnihotri, 2002, Cobra, Chennai, 50: 25-26, provided a record for Rajasthan, northeastern India. Mehta, 2005, in Alfred (ed.), Fauna W. Himalaya, Part 2: 270, reported the species in Himanchal Pradesh, India, without noting specific localities. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 105, provided a brief characterization and a photograph. De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 127, provided a brief account and color photograph for Sri Lanka. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 79, for brief account.
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