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Microhyla mantheyi Das, Yaakob, and Sukumaran, 2007
Microhyla mantheyi Das, Yaakob, and Sukumaran, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 306. Holotype: ZRC 1.10988, by original designation. Type locality: "from road between Jemaluang and Kahang (02° 16′ N, 103° 52–36′ E), Johor, Malaysia".
Common Names
Manthey's Narrow-mouthed Frog (Grismer, 2012, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Seribuat Arch.: 57).
Manthey's Chorus Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 228).
Manthey's Narrow-mouth Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 32).
Distribution
Malay Peninsula, from South Tanintharyi, peninsular Myanmar, and Narathiwat Province in southern Thailand, peninsular Malaysia, and Singapore; south-central Sumatra, Indonesia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand
Comment
Confused with Microhyla borneensis prior to its description, according to the original publication. See Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 119–120 (as Microhyla borneensis), and Dring, 1979, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 34: 194 (as Microhyla borneensis). See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 61 (as Microhyla borneensis). Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 102–103 (as Microhyla borneensis), provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. See brief account by Grismer, 2012, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Seribuat Arch.: 57–58, for the Seribuat Archipelago, West Malaysia. Manthey and Denzer, 2014, Sauria, Berlin, 36: 3–21, provided some morphology and color notes. Firdaus, Ratih, Karima, Kusuma, and Suastika, 2018, Bioinform. Biomed. Res. J., 1: 1–6, reported on the mtDNA phylogenetic relationships of the species of Microhyla within Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and peninsular Malaysia, placing this species as the sister of Microhyla malang + Microhyla borneensis. In the Microhyla achatina species group of Garg, Suyesh, Das, Jiang, Wijayathilaka, Amarasinghe, Alhadi, Vineeth, Aravind, Senevirathne, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018 "2019", Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 69: 1–71. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 228–229, provided a brief account (photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 47–48, provided a brief account for South Tanintharyi, peninsular Myanmar. Gorin, Solovyeva, Hasan, Okamiya, Karunarathna, Pawangkhanant, de Silva, Juthong, Milto, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Haas, Bickford, Das, and Poyarkov, 2020, PeerJ, 8 (e9411): 1–47, placed this species in their Microhyla achatina group and noted that the nominal species contained at least two cryptic species. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 32, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. Figueroa, Low, and Lim, 2023, Zootaxa, 5287: 1–378, provided records, literature, and conservation status for Singapore. Atmaja, Eprilurahman, Munir, Smith, Arisuryanti, Ubaidillah, and Hamidy, 2024, Taprobanica, 13: 91, reported a genetically-confirmed record from the Hutan Harapan National Forest (Jambi), south-central Sumatra, Indonesia.
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