Hylarana temporalis (Günther, 1864)

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

Hylorana temporalis Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 427. Syntypes: BMNH 1852.2.19.43-44, 1853.7.19.11 (now 1947.2.3.5), 1858.10.15.5-6, 1858.10.15 and 1858.10.18, according to Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 320, who discussed previous discussions of syntypes and designated 1947.2.3.5 (formerly 1853.7.19.11) as the lectotype. Type locality: "Ceylon" (= Sri Lanka).

Rana temporalisBoulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 63.

Rana (Hylorana) temporalisBoulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127–130.

Rana (Hylarana) temporalisDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.

Rana (Sylvirana) temporalisDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Hylarana temporalisChen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237, by implication; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 423.

Sylvirana temporalisFrost, 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: 370; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.

Indosylvirana temporalis — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 190. 

English Names

Günther's Golden-backed Frog (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 319). 

Bronze Frog (Deuti, Sethy, and Ray, 2014, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 114: 134).

Distribution

Sri Lanka between the elevations of 40 and 1850 m, in the districts of Kandy, Kegalle, Nuwara, Sri Pada, and Ratnapura.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Sri Lanka

Endemic: Sri Lanka

Comment

Prior to the revision of Frost, 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, placed in the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Sylvirana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. Kuramoto and Joshy, 2001, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 20: 85–95, reported on the advertisement call, as Rana temporalisDas and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature. Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 319–322, revised the species, placed it in their Hylarana temporalis group, and allocated all records from India to other species, rendering all Indian literature of this species (e.g.,  Deuti, Sethy, and Ray, 2014, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 114: 135) of ambiguous application. 

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