Sanguirana mearnsi (Stejneger, 1905)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Sanguirana > Species: Sanguirana mearnsi

Rana mearnsi Stejneger, 1905, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 28: 343. Holotype: USNM 35258 by original designation and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 75. Type locality: "Baganga River, East Coast Range Mountains, Mindanao [Philippines]; altitude between 1,000 and 5,000 feet". 

Rana dubita Taylor, 1920, Philipp. J. Sci., 16: 267. Holotype: EHT 1460, by original designation; probably lost in transit to CM according toTaylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 139. Type locality: "Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao", Philippines. Synonymy by Brown, Prue, Chan, Gaulke, Sanguila, and Siler, 2017, Herpetol. Monogr., 31: 214. 

Rana everetti albotuberculata Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 311. Holotype: MCZ 23190, by original designation. Type locality: "Cabalian, Leyte", Philippines. Synonymy by Brown, Prue, Chan, Gaulke, Sanguila, and Siler, 2017, Herpetol. Monogr., 31: 210. 

Rana (Chalcorana) albotuberculataDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328. without discussion

Rana albotuberculataBrown, McGuire, and Diesmos, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 86.

Hydrophylax albotuberculataFrost, 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.

Hylarana albotuberculataChe, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, by implication.

Chalcorana albotuberculataFei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 32. See comment under Ranidae record.

Sanguirana albotuberculata — Fuiten, Welton, Diesmos, Barley, Oberheide, Duya, Rico, and Brown, 2011, Herpetologica, 67: 91.

Sanguirana mearnsi — Brown, Prue, Chan, Gaulke, Sanguila, and Siler, 2017, Herpetol. Monogr., 31: 210. 

English Names

Cabilian Frog (as Sanguirana albotuberculata: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Distribution

Samar, Leyte, and the eastern part of Mindanao Island, Philippines.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

See discussion of nominal Sanguirana albotuberculata by Brown, McGuire, and Diesmos, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 81-104. Revised and discussed by Brown, Prue, Chan, Gaulke, Sanguila, and Siler, 2017, Herpetol. Monogr., 31: 210–231. See brief notes (as Sanguirana albotuberculata) for Mindanao, Philippines, by Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 42. See comments by Baron, Marin, Logramonte, and Mohagan, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 76–87.

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