Phrynella pulchra Boulenger, 1887

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Phrynella > Species: Phrynella pulchra

Phrynella pulchra Boulenger, 1887, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 19: 346. Syntypes: BMNH 1886.12.28.39–40 according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 107, these renumbered as 1947.2.11.36–37 according to Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 388. Type locality: "within a radius of fifty miles from the town of Malacca", Malaya, Malaysia; rendered as "in the district of the town of Malacca" by Günther, 1887, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 20: 313.

Kaloula boulengeri Smith, 1926, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 18: 81. Replacement name for Phrynella pulchra Boulenger, 1887, secondary homonym of Kaloula pulchra Gray, 1831, in Phrynella.

Common Names

Malacca Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).

Red-bellied Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 100; Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 236).

Beautiful Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 44). 

Red-bellied Narrow-mouthed Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 236).

Distribution

Malay Peninsula and adjacent southernmost Thailand, Sumatra, and the Mentawei Is.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Thailand

Comment

See Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 501–503, for account. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 67. Chan-ard and Thong-aree, 2003, BRT Research Report, 2003: 245–258, reported the species from Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary, Yala and Narathiwat provinces, Thailand. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 100–101, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Grismer, Chan, Grismer, Wood, and Ahmad, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 147–160, reported localities from the Banjaran Bintang Mountains, northwestern peninsular Malaysia. Thong-aree, Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Thailand Nat. Hist. Mus. J., 5: 99–106, reported the species from Bala Forest, Narathiwat, extreme southern Thailand. Akhsani, Hamidy, Farajallah, and Smith, 2017, Zoo Indonesia, 26: 107–155, found low genetic distances in the 16S mtDNA gene between Malay Peninsula and Sumatran populations. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 236–237, provided a brief account (photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 44, did not include Indonesia in the range statement without comment. 

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