Metaphrynella pollicaris (Boulenger, 1890)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Metaphrynella > Species: Metaphrynella pollicaris

Phrynella pollicaris Boulenger, 1890, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1890: 37. Holotype: BMNH 87.7.30.16, according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 108; now BM 1947.2.11.47, by museum records. Type locality: "Perak, 3,000 ft.", Malaysia (Malaya).

Metaphrynella pollicarisParker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 107.

English Names

Malaysian Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).

Malaysian Tree-hole Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 40). 

Distribution

Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary, Beton District, Yala Province, extreme southern peninsular Thailand, into peninsular Malaysia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Thailand

Comment

Reviewed by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 503-505. See account by Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 116-117 . See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 46, to compare this species with other microhylids in the Sunda Shelf region. Grismer, Chan, Grismer, Wood, and Ahmad, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 147–160, reported localities from the Banjaran Bintang Mountains, northwestern peninsular Malaysia. Sumarli, Grismer, Anuar, Muin, and Quah, 2015, Check List, 11(4, Art. 1679): 11, reported specimens from Mount Tebu Terregganu, West Malaysia, and briefly reported on their morphology and habitat. Leong and Lim, 2003, Raffles Bull. Zool., 51: 124, provided a record from Raub District, Pahang, West Malaysia. See comments on morphology and natural history in West Malaysia by Chan, Muin, Anuar, Andam, Razak, and Aziz, 2019, Check List, 15: 1055–1069. Sae Kong, Sangaunsombat, Soisook, Songchan, Makchai, Juthong, Douangboubpha, and Karapan, 2015, Wildlife Ybk., 15: 377–387, provided a record from Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary, Beton District, Yala Province, Thailand. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 218–219, provided a brief account (photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai).

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