Hylarana macrodactyla Günther, 1858

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

Hylarana macrodactyla Günther, 1858, Arch. Naturgesch., 24: 323. Syntypes: BMNH (6 specimens), by original designation. These may include 1851.12.27.355, 1856.11.17.43–44, and 1933.3.7.39–40, according to museum records but this requires confirmation. Type locality: "China", later given as "Hong Kong" and "China" by Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 72, and Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 55; restricted to "Hong Kong", China, by Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 31, and Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 421–423.

Rana trivittata Hallowell, 1861 "1860", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12: 504. Holotype: deposition not stated; presumably originally in ANSP or USNM. Type locality: "Hong Kong", China. Synonymy by Boettger, 1888, Ber. Offenbach. Ver. Naturkd., 1888: 96; Boulenger, 1912, in Robinson (ed.), Vert. Fauna of the Malay Peninsula: 238; and (provisionally) by Dubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 32. Formerly considered a possible synonym of Rana plancyi by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 37.

Hylorana macrodactyla — Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 424; Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 145; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 98; Song, Jang, Zou, and Shi, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 71; Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237; by implication; 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: 368; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3, by implication.

Hylorana subcoerulea Cope, 1868, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 20: 139. Syntypes: MCZ 624–626, according to the description; including MCZ 1591, according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 282. Type locality: "Rangoon, Burmah". Synonymy (with Rana erythraea) by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 65. Subsequently considered a possible synonym of Rana macrodactyla by Boulenger, 1890, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. Batr.: 455; and Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 155.

Rana macrodactyla — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 54.

Rana (Hylorana) macrodactyla —Boulenger In Mason, 1882, Burma, Ed. 3: 499; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127-130.

Rana (Limnodytes) macrodactyla — Bourret, 1927, Fauna Indochine, Vert., 3: 264.

Rana (Hylarana) macrodactyla — Bourret, 1941, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1941: 26; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.

Hylarana (Tenuirana) macrodactyla — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 143; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 122.

Rana (Hylarana) macrodactyla — Ohler and Mallick, 2003 "2002", Hamadryad, 27: 65.

Hylarana (Hylarana) macrodactyla — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1186; 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

Long-toed Grass Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 47). 

Guangdong Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Long-toed Slender Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 125; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 180).

Marbled Slender Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 125).

Long-toed Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 26 Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 80).

Three-striped Grass Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 26).

Brown Grasspound Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 114).

Stripe-backed Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 138; Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 340).

Long-toed Copper-backed Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 37).

Distribution

Southern  and northeastern Guangdong, central Guangxi, and Hainan and Hong Kong (China) and Indochina throughout Vietnam, lowlands of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand to and throughout Myanmar and south to northern West Malaysia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cambodia, China, People's Republic of, Hong Kong, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Indonesia

Comment

Discussed by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 155; Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 540–542; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 338–341; Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 421–423; Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 76–77; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 197–198; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 180–181. Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 26, provided a brief account. See brief account and photo by Matsui, 1979, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Kyoto Univ., 25: 298–300, and Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 112–113. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 91, provided an account for Guangxi. Reported for southwestern Cambodia by Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 465–481. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 114, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 48, commented briefly on the range in Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 138–139, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Teynié, David, Ohler, and Luanglath, 2004, Hamadryad, 29: 37, provided a record and comments for Laos. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 29, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Stuart, Sok, and Neang, 2006, Raffles Bull. Zool., 54: 140–141, provided a record for Cambodia. Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 80, provided a photograph, brief account of identification, ecology, and range in Cambodia. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1186–1191, provided an account, figures, and map for China. Chan, Belabut, and Ahmad, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 202–206, considered the species to be part of the West Malaysia fauna but did not mention vouchers. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 304, provided a brief account including photographs. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 102–103, provided a photograph and brief account for the Eastern Region of Thailand. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 115–116, provided an account for Hainan as Rana macrodactyla. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 341, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Wangyal, 2013, J. Threatened Taxa, 5: 4774–4783, reported Hylarana taipehensis from Bhutan (Samdrupjongkhar District), but given the revision of Hasan et al. (2019), the likelihood is that this is referrable to Hylarana tytleri. Minimally the identification needs confirmation. See account, photograph, and map for Vietnam in Vassilieva, Galoyan, Poyarkov, and Geissler, 2016, Photograph. Field Guide Amph. Rept. Lowland S. Vietnam: 103–104. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 49, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 340–341, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 134, provided a brief account, photographs, and a range map for Thailand that shows it throughout. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 37–38, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. Laurence, Nicolas, Ayoro, and Ohler, 2023, Zootaxa, 5258: 99–112, provided a dot map and discussed distribution modeling and the effect of misidentifications on those models. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 39, summarized literature, taxonomy, habitat, and detailed range for Laos.     

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