Hylarana nigrovittata (Blyth, 1856)

Common Names

Black-striped Stream Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 53). 

Black-striped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 174; Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 80).).

Black-spotted Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 79; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 83).

Sapgreen Stream Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 119).

Dark-sided Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 134).

Black-sided Woodfrog (Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 57; Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 40). 

Black-striped Wood Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Mengla Frog (Sylvirana menglaensis [no longer recognized]: Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 357). 

Hekou Frog (Sylvirana hekouensis [no longer recognized]: Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 315).

Distribution

Throughout Thailand to West Malaysia and northern Sumatra; northern Laos to northern Vietnam, and southern China (southern Yunnan and Guangxi); provisionally to northeastern Cambodia, and West Bengal, Assam, and Meghalaya (India) as well as adjacent Nepal and  Bangladesh (see comment).    

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, People's Republic of, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam

Comment

See account by Sheridan and Stuart, 2018, PLoS One, 13(3: e0192766): 8–15, who redelimited the species, changing the range substantially, and redescribed the lectotype; all literature of this species prior to the appearance of this paper should be used with caution; identifications of this nominal species in India and Nepal are provisional inasmuch as they have yet to be evaluated by molecular assay as is the specimen from North Sumatra (FMNH 210049) noted by Sheridan and Stuart. See Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 144; Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 440–443; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 317–320; Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 81–82; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 195–197; Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 143–145; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 174–176. See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 21–22. Heyer, 1971, Fieldiana, Zool., 58: 61–82, reported on the call from Thailand. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 113–115. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 90, provided a statement of range. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 95–96. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 295–298, provided an account for the Nepal population. Matsui, Nishikawa, Khonsue, Panha, and Nabhitabhata, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 15–22, studied allozyme variation in Thailand and found two distinct populations that are likely distinct species, one in northwestern and northern Thailand south to Ko Samul Island off Tenasserim and another (now Rana mortensenii) found in eastern Thailand and one locality in peninsular Thailand near the Malaysia line. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 119, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 48, noted the range in Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 134–135, 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: 30, provided specific localities for Vietnam. In the Hylarana (Hylarana) nigrovittata group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 118. Dubois, 2004, Alytes, 21: 175, noted that use of this name for populations in Nepal, likely refer to populations of Rana (Sylvirana) chitwaensis. Grosjean, 2005, Contrib. Zool., Amsterdam, 74: 61–76, discussed developmental stages of the tadpole as part of a larger discussion of how best to compare larval morphologies. Stuart, Sok, and Neang, 2006, Raffles Bull. Zool., 54: 141, provided a record for Cambodia. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 162–163, provided a range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2008, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 33: 199–206, provided a key to the close relatives of this species and discussed misidentifications in the Chinese literature. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 71–72, provided a brief account (as Rana nigrovittata). Mo, Zhou, Xie, and Chen, 2007, Herpetol. Sinica, 11: 15–18, reported the species in Guangxi, China. Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 83, provided a photograph, brief account of identification, ecology, and range in Cambodia. Gawor, Hendrix, Vences, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2009, Zootaxa, 2051: 1–25, suggested on the basis of molecular and larval differences that populations in northern Thailand and Vietnam represent different species. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 83–84, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Mahony, Hasan, Kabir, Ahmed, and Hossain, 2009, Hamadryad, 34: 80–94, reported Hylarana cf. nigrovittata from the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh, implying that nominal Hylarana nigrovittata may be a species complex. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 71, for brief account (as Rana nigrovittata). 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. See account (as Hylarana nigrovittata), photograph, and map for Vietnam in Vassilieva, Galoyan, Poyarkov, and Geissler, 2016, Photograph. Field Guide Amph. Rept. Lowland S. Vietnam: 105–106. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1155–1160, provided an account (as Hylarana menglaensis), figures, and map for China and placed it in their Hylarana (Sylvirana) hekouensis group. Grismer, Chan, Grismer, Wood, and Ahmad, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 147–160, reported localities from the Banjaran Bintang Mountains, northwestern peninsular Malaysia. Tran, Le, Le, Vu, Nguyen, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2010, Herpetol. Notes, 3: 111–119, provided a record from Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam, and provided a brief morphological diagnosis. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 317, provided a brief account as Hylarana menglaensis, including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 357, provided an account (as Sylvirana menglaensis), photographs, and a range map for China. Hecht, Pham, Nguyen, Nguyen, Bonkowski, and Ziegler, 2013, Biodiversity J., 4: 507–552, reported a record from Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, Bac Giang Province, northeastern Vietnam and discussed the range. Le, Pham, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2014, Russ. J. Herpetol., 21: 315–321, provided explicit records (as Sylvirana menglaensis) for Dien Bien and Son La provinces in northwestern Vietnam and provided an account including morphological, acoustic, and ecological observation. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1151–1148, provided an account (as Hylarana hekouensis), figures, and map for China and placed it in their Hylarana (Sylvirana) hekouensis group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 315, provided a brief account, as Hylarana hekouensis, including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 352–353, provided an account (as Sylvirana hekouensis), photographs, and a range map for China. Mulcahy, Lee, Miller, Chand, Thura, and Zug, 2018, ZooKeys, 757: 95, provided a record from Taninthary Division, southern Myanmar. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 380–381, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 57–58, provided a brief account for South Tanintharyi, peninsular Myanmar. Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 148–149, provided a brief account, photographs, and a range map for Thailand. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 53, continued recognition of Sylvirana menglaensis for undisclosed reasons, considered the records from Vietnam and Laos to require confirmation, and without comment excluded India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia from the range of Sylvirana nigrovittata. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 40, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 42, summarized literature, taxonomy, habitat, and detailed range for Laos but included Hylarana menglaensis in synonymy which at this point requires additional verification (see comment under Hylarana menglaensis). 

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