Hylarana faber (Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002)

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

Rana (Sylvirana) faber Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 475. Holotype: MNHNP 2001.0261, by original designation. Type locality: "Phnom Aural in the Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary, Kampong Speu Province, Southwest Cambodia (UTM 1328200N 0307700E) . . . . in hill evergreen forest at an altitude of 710 m a.m.s.l.".

Hylarana faberChen, 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.

Sylvirana faberFrost, 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; Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 191. 

Hylarana faberChe, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 423. 

Hylarana (Sylvirana) faberFei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2008, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 33: 206.

English Names

Smith's Frog (Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 76; Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 374).

Cardamom Mountain Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 374).

Cardamom Stream Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 52). 

Distribution

Restricted to the uplands of southwestern Cambodia (Kampong Speu and Kampot Provinces) and adjacent southeastern Thailand (Chanthaburi Province). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cambodia, Thailand

Comment

Most similar to Rana nigrovittata and Rana mortenseni according to the original publication. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 100–101, provided a photograph and brief account for the Eastern Region of Thailand.  Stuart and Emmett, 2006, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 109: 8–9, provided records for the Cadamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia, and noted errors in previous literature. Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 76, provided a photograph, brief account of identification, ecology, and range in Cambodia. Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2008, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 33: 199–206, provided a key to the close relatives of this species. See account by Sheridan and Stuart, 2018, PLoS One, 13(3: e0192766): 23–26, who revised the systematics. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 374–375, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai).  

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