Glyphoglossus smithi (Barbour and Noble, 1916)

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

Calliglutus smithi Barbour and Noble, 1916, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 6: 20. Holotype: MCZ 3797, by original designation. Type locality: "Limbang River district, northern central Sarawak", Malaysia (Borneo).

Colpoglossus smithiParker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 32.

Calluella smithiInger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 120.

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

Common Names

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

Distribution

Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo); Brunei. Expected in adjacent Kalimantan, Indonesia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brunei, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Likely/Controversially Present: Indonesia

Comment

Distribution given by Inger and Tan, 1996, Raffles Bull. Zool., 44: 557. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 49. Grafe and Tony, 2021, Herpetol. Rev., 52: 77, provided the record from Brunei. 

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