Fejervarya verruculosa (Roux, 1911)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Fejervarya > Species: Fejervarya verruculosa

Rana tigrina var. verruculosa Roux, 1911, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 30: 504. Type(s): SMF 6538 (formerly 1026. 4a) designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 46. Type locality: "Wetar, Iliwaki", Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.

Rana (Rana) verruculosaBoulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 16. Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 172.

Rana cancrivora verruculosaDunn, 1928, Am. Mus. Novit., 315: 5.

Rana verruculosaMertens, 1928, Senckenb. Biol., 10: 230.

Rana cancrivora verruculosaMertens, 1930, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 42: 213-214.

Rana (Euphlyctis) verruculosaDubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 239, by implication.

Euphlyctis verruculosaPoynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 124, by implication.

Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) verruculosusDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 60.

Limnonectes (Fejervarya) verruculosusDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 315.

Fejervarya verruculosaDubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 35. Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 93.

English Names

Sundas Wart Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 100).

Distribution

Timor, Wetar, Sumba, Alor, Flores, and Damar islands, Lesser Sundas, Indonesia and East Timor. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: East Timor, Indonesia

Comment

Menzies, 1987, Aust. J. Zool., 35: 388-389, and Menzies, 1992, Sci. New Guinea, 18: 119, reported this species from Papua New Guinea, in error, according to J. Menzies, in litt. to Allen Allison 9 Feb 2006. See account by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 16, who resurrected this species from the synonymy of Hoplobatrachus tigerinus. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 60, considered this species to be a member of his Limnonectes (Hoplobatrachus) tigerinus group, but subsequently (Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 315) moved it into FejervaryaKennedi, Kusrini, Mardiastuti, and Ariefiandy, 2021, Media Konservasi , 26: 217–230, reported the species on Flores I., Indonesia.   

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