Hylarana montana (Rao, 1922)

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

Rana (Hylorana) gracilis montanus Rao, 1922, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 28: 439. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.2.66 (formerly BMNH 1921.1.20.6) according to  Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 311. Type locality: "Hill forests of Bhagamandla", India. Incorrect gender of species name. 

Rana (Hylorana) bhagmandlensis Rao, 1922, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 28: 441. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.2.12 (originally 1921.1.20.1) by museum records; BMNH 1947.2.2.12 unnecessarily designated lectotype by Dutta, 1990, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 87: 310. Type locality: "Water course in the forests of Bhagamandla, Coorg, 4000 feet", Mysore, India. Synonymy with Hylarana aurantiaca by Dutta, 1990, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 87: 310. Synonymy not accepted; without discussion, by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. Synonymy with Hylarana montana by Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 311. 

Rana (Hylarana) bhagmandlensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.

Rana (Sylvirana) bhagmandlensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Sylvirana bhagmandlensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. Undiscussed recognition. See comment under Ranidae record.

Hylarana montanusBiju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 311. Gender disagreement of species and generic names. 

Indosylvirana montana — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 190. 

Hylarana montana — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 501, by implication.

English Names

Montane Golden-backed Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 10).

Distribution

Widely distributed in the Western Ghats of the state of Karnataka, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Hylarana temporalis (where it had been placed by Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 158, 164) and placed in their Hylarana flavescens group by Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 311, who revised the entire group of species. 

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