Hylarana chalconota (Schlegel, 1837)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hylarana > Species: Hylarana chalconota

Hyla chalconotus Schlegel, 1837, Abbild. Neuer Unvollst. Amph., 1: 23. Schlegel, 1840, Abbild. Neuer Unvollst. Amph., Atlas: pl. 9, fig. 1. Type(s): Not stated, but animal figured in plate 9, fig. 1 is clearly one of these; including RMNH 5364 and 4264 (4 specimens), according to Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 156, and Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 43; ZMB 4462 (2 specimens from Java), according to Bauer, 2016, in Das and Tuen (eds.), Nat. Explor. Field Sci. SE Asia Australasia: 93; BMNH specimen received on exchange from RMNH should be evaluated as to its possible status as a primary type (DRF). Type localities: "Innern der Insel Java" (figured specimens) and "Sumatra", Indonesia.

Polypedates chalconotusTschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 34, 76.

Limnodytes chalconotusDuméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 513; Peters and Doria, 1878, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 13: 420.

Polypedates junghunii Bleeker, 1856, Natuurkd. Tijdschr. Nederl. Indie, 11: 469. Syntypes: Including RMNH 3962 according to Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 53. Inger, Stuart, and Iskandar, 2009, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 155: 130, reported RMNH 4264 and 5364 as likely types. Type locality: "Java". Synonymy by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 201; Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 217; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 366. See Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 178, for discussion of the status of this name who associated it with Polypedates leucomystax. Considered a nomen dubium by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 73.

Hylarana chalconotaGünther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 73; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 423. 

Rana chalconotaBoulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 66.

Rana (Hylorana) chalconotaBoulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127, 201.

Rana (Hylarana) chalconotaVan Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 217; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 366; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication.

Hylorana chalconotaDeckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.

Rana chalconota chalconotaInger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 177, by implication.

Rana (Chalcorana) chalconotaDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328.

Hydrophylax chalconotaFrost, 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: 368.

Chalcorana chalconotaFei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 32; Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 187. 

English Names

Schlegel's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

White-lipped Frog (Lim and Lim, 1992, Guide Amph. Rept. Singapore: 30; Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 66).

Copper-cheeked Frog (Kiew, 1987, Malayan Nat. J., 41: 417; Lim and Lim, 1992, Guide Amph. Rept. Singapore: 30; Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 66; Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65).

Brown Stream Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 118).

Distribution

Known definitely only from Java and southern Sumatra, Indonesia (see comment), although likely to be somewhat more widely distributed; possibly Bali. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia

Endemic: Indonesia

Comment

Confused in the literature with Hylarana raniceps. See comment under Hylarana raniceps. See accounts by Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 66-67. Lim and Lim, 1992, Guide Amph. Rept. Singapore: 30-31, provide a brief account and photograph. Stuart, Inger, and Voris, 2006, Biol. Lett., 2: 470-474, noted that on the basis of molecular data, this nominal species is likely composed of several cryptic species. McKay, 2006, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Bali: 38-39, provided a brief account and photograph. Inger, Stuart, and Iskandar, 2009, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 155: 123-147, provided a revised diagnosis and redelimited the species' range. Wogan, Vindum, Wilkinson, Koo, Slowinski, Win, Thin, Kyi, Oo, Lwin, and Shein, 2008, Hamadryad, 33: 86, provided a record for Tanintharyi Division, peninsular Myanmar; these reidentified as Chalcorana eschatia by Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 35. Busta and Roesma, 2018, IOSr J. Pharm. Biol. Sci., 13 : 1–4, discussed used of PCR for identification from related cryptic species. See brief account by Amin, 2020, Frogs of East Java: 26–28. 

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