Kaloula meridionalis Inger, 1954

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Kaloula > Species: Kaloula meridionalis

Kaloula conjuncta meridionalis Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 444. Holotype: FMNH 50754, by original designation. Type locality: "Madaum, Tagum Municipality, Davao Province, Mindanao, Philippine Islands."

Kaloula meridionalisSanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 37. 

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Mindanao, Philippines. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

See comment under Kaloula conjuncta, with which this species was until recently considered conspecific. See brief notes for Mindanao, Philippines, by Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 36–37, who suggested on the basis of the results of Blackburn, Siler, Diesmos, McGuire, Cannatella, and Brown, 2013, Evolution, 67: 2631–2646, that all nominal subspecies of Kaloula conjuncta likely deserve to be recognized as species. But, these authors only formally so considered the Mindanao populations, Kaloula meridionalis. 

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