Hylarana margariana Anderson, 1879

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hylarana > Species: Hylarana margariana

Hylarana margariana Anderson, 1879 "1878", Anat. Zool. Res.: 846. Syntypes: 2 specimens possibly in the BMNH but not mentioned by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 58; probably lost, according to Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 335. Type locality: "in a hill stream debouching into the Irawady, in the second defile", Myanmar.

Lymnodytes margarianaMason, 1882, Burma, Ed. 3: 291.

Rana margarianaBoulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 58.

Rana (Hylarana) margarianaDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.

Rana (Sylvirana) margarianaDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Hylarana margariana — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 98; Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237, by implication; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3; by implication.

Sylvirana margarianaFrost, 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: 370. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.

 

English Names

Irawaddy Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Unknown Copper-backed Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 38). 

Distribution

Kachin, northern Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Myanmar

Endemic: Myanmar

Comment

Prior to the revision of Frost, 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, placed in the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Sylvirana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. See brief account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 334-335. Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 188, noted that this species is likely in either in Hydrophylax or Indosylvirana, but pending genetic sampling declined to make any taxonomic changes; here it is formally removed from Hylarana, which these authors rendered a monophyletic group. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 38, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.  

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