Leptobrachium ingeri Hamidy, Matsui, Nishikawa, and Belabut, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachium > Species: Leptobrachium ingeri

Leptobrachium ingeri Hamidy, Matsui, Nishikawa, and Belabut, 2012, Zootaxa, 3398: 28. Holotype: KUHE 53848, by original designation. Type locality: "Matang Wildlife Centre (01° 36′ 34″ N, 110° 09′ 36″ E, 60 m a.s.l.), Kuching Division, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia".

English Names

Inger's Large-eyed Litter Frog (Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 166).

Distribution

Coastal area of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo (Santubong, Matang [Kuching Division], and Niah [Miri Division]); Belitung Island, Indonesia (Tanjung Padang).

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Confused with Leptobrachium nigrops prior to its naming according to the original publication. In the Leptobrachium (Leptobrachium) hasseltii complex of Al-Razi, Maria, and Poyarkov, 2021, J. Nat. Hist., London, 55: 85–114, who reported on molecular systematics. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 166–168, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration. Fauzan, Farajallah, and Hamidy, 2023, Treubia, 50: 89–110, reported on morphological differentia among Indonesian species.

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