Glyphoglossus brooksii (Boulenger, 1904)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Glyphoglossus > Species: Glyphoglossus brooksii

Colpoglossus Brooksii Boulenger, 1904, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 13: 42. Holotype: BMNH 1903.11.24.3 according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 31; now reregistered BMNH 1947.2.10.79, by museum records. Type locality: "Bidi, Sarawak", Malaysia (Borneo).

Calluella brooksiParker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 31.

Glyphoglossus brooksiiPeloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 140. 

English Names

Brooks' Squat Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).

Brookes' Burrowing Frog (Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 155).

Brooks' Burrowing Frog (Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 287.

Distribution

Borneo in Kalimantan (Indonesia) and Sarawak (Malaysia).

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

See account by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 119-120. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 47. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 155, provided a brief description. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 287–290, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration.

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