Hylarana intermedia (Rao, 1937)

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

Rana (Hylorana) intermedius Rao, 1937, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 6: 394. Holotype: CCB; now lost according to Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 157. BNHS 5823, from type locality, designated neotype by  Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 295. Type locality: "Saklespur, Hassan District, Mysore [now Karnataka] State", India. Incorrect gender of species name. 

Sylvirana intermedia —  Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 164.

Hylarana intermediusBiju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 295. Incorrect gender of species name. 

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

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

English Names

Rao's Intermediate Golden-backed Frog (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 295). 

Rao's Brown-coloured Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 115).

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

Distribution

Western Ghats north of the Palghat Gap of the states of Karnataka and adjoining regions of Kerala, predominently at elevations between 600 and 1183 m, but also as low as 8 m elevation at Adyar (Mangalore).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Hylarana flavescens by Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 295 (who provided an account and placed it in their Hylarana aurantiaca group), where it had been placed by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 341. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 115, provided a brief account (as Rana intermedius). Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Kamath and Sreekar, 2016, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 11: 15–20, reported on morphology, ecology, and behavior. 

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