Hylarana glandulosa (Boulenger, 1882)

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

Rana glandulosa Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 73. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation and illustrated on pl. 7 of the original publication; possibly 1879.6.5.30 by museum records. Type locality: "Sarawak", Malaysia (Borneo).

Rana (Hylorana) glandulosa — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127–130.

Rana (Hylarana) glandulosa — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 194; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 362; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication.

Hylarana glandulosa — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 98; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 423. 

Rana (Pulchrana) glandulosa — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Pulchrana glandulosa — 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: 33; Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 188.

Hylarana (Pulchrana) glandulosa — 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

Sarawak Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Glandular Frog (Kiew, 1987, Malayan Nat. J., 41: 417).

Rough-sided Frog (Leong, 2001, Herpetol. Rev., 32: 190; Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 128; Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 158).

Sarawak Swamp Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 51). 

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand (Chumphon Province and south) to Malaya, Sumatra, Bunguran I. (Natuna Is.), and Borneo (Indonesia, Brunei, and Malaysia); southern Vietnam (see comment). Possibly to be found in extreme southern peninsular Myanmar. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah), Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Comment

In the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Pulchrana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. See Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 181; Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 436–440; Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 184–187; and Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 362–364. See also Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 67–68. Leong, 2001, Herpetol. Rev., 32: 190, provided the Natuna I. record. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 108–109. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 89, reported the species to be in southern Vietnam. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 117, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 128–129, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 27, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 158, provided a brief description. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 59, provided a photograph and brief account, as Rana glandulosa. Teynié, David, and Ohler, 2010, Zootaxa, 2416: 12, commented on the range in Sumatra. 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. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 145, detailed the range in Thailand. Shahriza and Jaafar, 2014, Check List, 10: 253–259, provided a photograph and brief natural history observations for a population in Kedah, West Malaysia. Sumarli, Grismer, Anuar, Muin, and Quah, 2015, Check List, 11(4, Art. 1679): 13 reported specimens from Lata Belatan,, Terregganu, West Malaysia, and briefly reported on their morphology and habitat. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 364–365, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 52, noted that the Vietnam records are geographically far from the main collection of records and require confirmation. Reported from Penang Hill, Penang Island, West Malaysia by Sheridan, Akil, Gendu, Low, Zou, and Heng, 2021, In N. Ruppert et al., Biodiversity of Penang Hill: 234–240.  Gillespie, Ahmad, and Shia, 2021, Field Guide Frog Lower Kinabatangan Region Sabah: 35, provided a brief account, summarizing identification and life history in the Lower Kinabatangan Region, Sabah, Malaysia. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 339–341, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration. Herlambang, Riyanto, Munir, Hamidy, Kimura, Eto, and Mumpuni, 2022, Treubia, 49: 78, reported the species from Bunguran I., Natuna Is., Indonesia. Ong and Shahriza, 2022, Amphibia-Reptilia, 43: 457–462, reported on vocalizations in peninsular Malaysia. Riskierdi, Satria, Atifah, and Nugraha, 2023, Serambi Biol., 8: 274–279, reported on morphological variation in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Deka and Zainudin, 2025, J. Sustainability Sci. Managment, 20: 363–368, reported (as Pulchrana glandulosa) on the advertisement call from a population in Sarawak, Malaysia. 

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