Limnonectes ingeri (Kiew, 1978)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Limnonectes > Species: Limnonectes ingeri

Rana ingeri Kiew, 1978, Malayan Nat. J., 31: 223. Holotype: FMNH 83012, by original designation. Type locality: "Sungai Sepupok, Niah, Fourth Division, Sarawak, Borneo", Malaysia.

Limnonectes (Limnonectes) ingeriDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 63.

English Names

Inger's Wart Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 100).

Greater Swamp Frog (Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 48).

Inger's River Frog (Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 266).

Distribution

Scattered localities in northern Borneo in Brunei, Kalimantan (Indonesia) and Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia), below 500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

See comment under Rana malesiana. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 84-86, to compare this species with other ranids of the Sunda Shelf region. In the Limnonectes (Limnonectes) grunniens group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 63. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 629. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 48, provided a photograph and brief account. 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: 265–268, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration.

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