Staurois guttatus (Günther, 1858)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Staurois > Species: Staurois guttatus

Ixalus guttatus Günther, 1858, Arch. Naturgesch., 24: 324. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation. Type locality: "Borneo".

Staurois guttatusCope, 1865, Nat. Hist. Rev., N.S., 5: 117.

Polypedates guttatusGünther, 1872, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872: 600.

Rana guttataBoulenger, 1894, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 14: 87.

Staurois guttatusBoulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 374.

Rana guttatusSmith, 1931, Bull. Raffles Mus., 5: 30; Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 161.

English Names

Black-spotted Rock Frog (Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 161).

Black-spotted Rock Skipper (Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 217).

Distribution

Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia, northern and western (in isolated localities) in Kalimantan (Indonesia), and Brunei (Borneo).

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Removed from the synonym of Ixalus natator by XXX, where it had been placed by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 71; Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 335; and Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 245–246. Grafe and Wanger, 2007, Ethology, 113: 772–781, discussed the advertisement call. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 161, provided a brief description. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 66, provided a photograph and brief account. Bornean population of Staurois natator (presumably = Staurois guttatus) discussed by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 245-250. Arifin, Iskandar, Bickford, Brown, Meier, and Kutty, 2011, Zootaxa, 2744: 39–52, noted that molecular evidence is suggestive of two cryptic species. Preininger, Handschuh, Boeckle, Sztatecsny, and Hödl, 2016, Herpetol. J., 26: 187–97, reported on larynx morphology and vocalisation. Haas, Kueh, Joseph, bin Asri, Das, Hagmann, Schwander, and Hertwig, 2018, Evol. Syst., 2: 89–114, provided a brief account of morphology and natural history for the Sabah population. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 217–220, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration.

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