Kalophrynus intermedius Inger, 1966

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Kalophryninae > Genus: Kalophrynus > Species: Kalophrynus intermedius

Kalophrynus intermedius Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 131. Holotype: FMNH 139348, by original designation. Type locality: "Nanga Tekalit, Mengiong River, Third Division, Sarawak", Malaysia (Borneo).

English Names

Sarawak Grainy Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).

Intermediate Sticky Frog (Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 40).

Mengiong Sticky Frog (Zug, 2015, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 62: 165). 

Sticky Frog (Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 318).

Distribution

Low elevations of Borneo in Brunei (Batu Apoi), south-central Sarawak (Malaysia), and adjacent Kalimantan, Indonesia, in Betung Kerihun National Park, 150-300 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Comment

See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 46, to compare this species with other microhylids in the Sunda Shelf region. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 451. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 40, provided a photograph and a brief account. See account by Zug, 2015, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 62: 164–165. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 318–319, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration. Vassilieva and Nguyen, 2023, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 73: 367–382, reported on larval development and morphology. 

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