Glyphoglossus guttulatus (Blyth, 1856)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Glyphoglossus > Species: Glyphoglossus guttulatus

Megalophrys guttulata Blyth, 1856 "1855", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24: 717. Type(s): Not stated, but implied to be originally ZSIC, but reported as lost by Theobald, 1868, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 37: 82. Type locality: "Inhabits Pegu", Myanmar; given as "Schwe Gyen, on the Sitang river, Pegu [= Bago]", Myanmar, by Blyth, 1856 "1855", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24 : 720. 

Callula guttulata — Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 479, 490.

Calluella guttulata — Stoliczka, 1872, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1872: 146; Bourret, 1927, Fauna Indochine, Vert., 3: 262; Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 28.

Glyphoglossus guttulatus — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 140. 

Glyphoglossus (Calluella) guttulatus — Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 39. 

English Names

Burmese Squat Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).

Orange Burrowing Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 154).

Striped Spadefoot Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 96).

Blotched Burrowing Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 42).

Striped Burrowing Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 204).

Distribution

Mainland (Bago) and peninsular (Mon, Tanintharyi) Myanmar, and most of mainland Thailand through southern Laos (Salavanakhet, Champasak, and Xaignabouli provinces ) and western Cambodia to the southern Vietnam (Dac Lac, Gia Lai, and Kon Tum provinces, 400-1000 m) possibly into the northern part of the Malay Peninsula, although this requires confirmation (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular)

Comment

See Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 481–483, and Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 569–572 (who reported primarily on Thailand but noted Malayan records), for accounts. Heyer, 1971, Fieldiana, Zool., 58: 61–82, reported on the call from Thailand (as Calluella pulchra). See Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 10–11, for the Vietnam record. Recorded for Thailand by Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 77. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 48–49. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 98, provided a statement of range in Vietnam. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 154–155, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 49, commented on range in Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 96–97, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 41, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Stuart and Emmett, 2006, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 109: 6, provided a record for the Cadamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia. Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 57, provided a photograph, brief account of identification, ecology, and range in Cambodia. Chan, Belabut, and Ahmad, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 202–206, doubted the presence of this species in West Malaysia but did not . Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 34–35, provided a brief account for eastern Thailand and photograph and (p. 30) detailed the range in Thailand. Altig and Rowley, 2014, Zootaxa, 3811: 381–386, reported on larval morphology. See account (as Calluella guttulata), photograph, and map for Vietnam in Vassilieva, Galoyan, Poyarkov, and Geissler, 2016, Photograph. Field Guide Amph. Rept. Lowland S. Vietnam: 62–63. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Duong, Gorin, and Yang, 2018, PeerJ, 6 (e5771): 17, provided a record from Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 204–205, provided a brief account (photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). See comments by Geissler, Hartmann, Ihlow, Neang, Seng, Wagner, and Böhme, 2019, Cambodian J. Nat. Hist., 2019: 40–63, on specimens collected in Phnom Kulen National Park, northern Cambodia. Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 110, provided a brief account, photographs, and a range map for Thailand. Nguyen, Brakels, Maury, Sudavanh, Pawangkhanant, Idiiatullina, Lorphengsy, Inkhavilay, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2020, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 14 (2: e248): 218–249, discussed the range and provided records from Salavanakhet, Champasak, and Xaignabouli Provinces, Laos. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 29, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. 

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