Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Polypedates cavirostris Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 486. Holotype: BMNH 1868.3.17.32 according to Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 185. Type locality: "Southern Ceylon [= Sri Lanka]".

Ixalus fimbriatus Günther, 1872, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, 9: 87. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.31.29 (formerly 71.12.14.38) according to Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 99. Type locality: "Peradeniya ... collected chiefly in the neighbourhood of the locality named .... Ceylon", Sri Lanka. Synonymy with Polypedates microtympanum by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 82. Synonymy with Polypedates cavirostris by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 82; Boulenger, 1890, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. Batr.: 481; Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 24.

Rhacophorus cavirostris — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: viii, 82. Liu and Hu, 1960 "1959", Acta Zool. Sinica, 11: 526; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 247; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 64.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) cavirostris — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 122.

Philautus cavirostris — Jiang, Hu, and Zhao, 1987, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 6 (1): 32, 34. Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 176. See comment.

Rhacophorus carvirostris — Lue, Lai, and Chen, 1994, Herpetologica, 50: 303-308. Incorrect subsequent spelling. See comment.

Philautus (Kirtixalus) cavirostris — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 22.

Kirtixalus cavirostris — Yu, Rao, Zhang, and Yang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 578. By implication.

Pseudophilautus cavirostris — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional allocation.

English Names

Tibetan Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111 [presumably based on a species other than Philautus cavirostris; see comment).

Tubercle Shrub Frog (De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 95).

Distribution

Discontinuous in wet forest of southwestern Sri Lanka at 30-1100 m elevation.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Polypedates microtympanum by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 22, where it had been place by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 174, and Kirtisinghe, 1957, Amph. Ceylon: 63. See account by Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 195-200. Chinese records of Rhacophorus cavirostris (e.g., Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 247-248; Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 118-119; Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 120) likely apply to Rhacophorus bisacculus or Rhacophorus verrucosus according to Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 39-40 (see account of "Rhacophorus cavirostris" from Yunnan by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 210-212, and brief account by Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 90-91, for Yunnan, China.). See comment under Rhacophorus hainanensis. There is a problem here; it is extremely unlikely that one species is found in Sri Lanka as well as in the mountains of China and one must guess that the species in China is not appropriately referred to Pseudophilautus cavirostris. (See Kurixalus odontotarsus and Kurixalus verrucosus records.) De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 95, provided a brief account and color photograph. Bopage, Wewalwala, Krvavac, Jovanovic, Safarek, and Pushpamal, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 173-177, reported the species in lowland forest in the Kanneliya Forest of southwestern Sri Lanka.

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