Hylarana khare (Kiyasetuo and Khare, 1986)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hylarana > Species: Hylarana khare

Pterorana khare Kiyasetuo and Khare, 1986, Asian J. Explor. Sci., 1: 12. Holotype: ZSIC-E Reg. V/ERS 8214, now ZSIC A.9095, according to Ao, Bardoloi, Ohler, and Grosjean, 2006, Alytes, 24: 24. Type locality: "Sanuoru river, Kohima, Nagaland (alt. 1,440 m a. s. l.)", Meghalaya, India.

Rana (Pterorana) khare — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329; Ao, Bardoloi, Ohler, and Grosjean, 2006, Alytes, 24: 36.

Pterorana khare — Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 108; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 369; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35. See comment under Ranidae record.

Hylarana (Sylvirana) khare — Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 265. 

Hylarana (Pterorana) khare — Wu, Xu, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Murphy, Papenfuss, Lathrop, Kilunda, Gao, Yuan, Chen, Zhang, Zhao, Wang, Rahman, Nneji, Zhao, Wang, Jin, Zhang, and Che, 2024 "2025", Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108223: 1–11, by implication.

Common Names

Khare's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 105; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 83).

Khare's Gliding Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 88).

Indian Flying Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66).

Gliding Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 81).

Winged Frog (Rangad, Tron, and Hooroo, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 99).

Floppy-sided Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 39).

Khare's Winged Ranid Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Distribution

Northeastern India in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Meghalaya in association with cascading water, 200–1600 m elevation; in adjacent Myanmar in Chin and Sagaing states; southeastern Bangladesh.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar

Comment

See brief account by Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 81, 209. Dey and Ramanujam, 2003, Hamadryad, 27: 255–256, provided an additional locality in Mizoram, India. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 159, provided range and systematic comments. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. See comments by Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1123. Ao, Bardoloi, Ohler, and Grosjean, 2006, Alytes, 24: 22–39, reported on the taxon, redescribed the species, noted that it likely fit into their section Hydrophylax but lacked the larval synapomorphies of Sylvirana + Hylarana (sensu Dubois, 1992) as well as XXX. Molecular data are required. Rangad, Tron, and Hooroo, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 99, provided a record for East Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya, India. Sen and Mathew, 2006, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 106: 121–122, reported on specimens from Arunachal Pradesh and discussed the range. Devi and Shamungou, 2006, J. Exp. Zool. India, 9: 317–324, provided a record for Manipur, northeastern India. Sen and Mathew, 2003, Cobra, Chennai, 53: 5–8, provided a record for Mizoram, northeastern India, and discussed the morphology of the new specimens. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 499. Wogan, Vindum, Wilkinson, Koo, Slowinski, Win, Thin, Kyi, Oo, Lwin, and Shein, 2008, Hamadryad, 33: 86, provided the first record for Chin state, Myanmar. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 88, provided a brief characterization and a photograph. Khan, 2013, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 110: 162–163, provided a record from southeastern Bangladesh.  Saikia, Kharkongor, and Imam, 2018, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 118: 307–309, discussed the reported range. Muansanga, Decemson, Biakzuala, Laltlanhlui, Malsawmdawngliana, Hmar, Mathipi, Kumar, and Lalremsanga, 2021, Reptiles & Amphibians, 28: 205–212, provided new records for Mizoram, northeastern India. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 39, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar and suggested that the species extended into Bangladesh.

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