Hylarana elberti (Roux, 1911)

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

Rana elberti Roux, 1911, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 30: 504. Holotype: SMF 4470 (formerly 1062.1a) according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 45. Type locality: "Wetar Iliwaki", Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.

Rana (Hylorana) elbertiBoulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127-130.

Rana (Hylarana) elbertiVan Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 200; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication.

Rana (Papurana) elbertiDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 325.

Sylvirana elbertiFrost, 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.

Hylarana elbertiChe, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 525, by implication.

Papurana elbertiFei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.

Papurana elberti — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 187 (provisional arrangement). 

English Names

Lesser Sundas Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Distribution

Timor, Sumba, and Wetar I., Sunda Is., Indonesia and East Timor.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: East Timor, Indonesia

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 Papurana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. See Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 142; Menzies, 1987, Aust. J. Zool., 35: 373-418. See comment under Limnonectes timorensis. See comment under Papurana daemeliReilly, Arifin, Stubbs, Karin, Kaiser, Frederick, Arida, Iskandar, and McGuire, 2022, Zootaxa, 5150: 591–599, suggested on genetic grounds that the populations on Timor and Sumba Is. may be distinct from each other. 

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