Philautus ingeri Dring, 1987

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Philautus > Species: Philautus ingeri

Philautus ingeri Dring, 1987, Amphibia-Reptilia, 8: 21. Holotype: BMNH 1978.1820, by original designation. Type locality: "camp three 1300 m., Gunung Mulu, Fourth Division, Sarawak", Malaysia, Borneo.

Philautus (Gorhixalus) ingeriDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 335. Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 57.

Leptomantis ingeriIskandar and Colijn, 2000, Treubia, 31: 95.

Philautus ingeriHarvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 47, by implication.

English Names

Inger's Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).

Distribution

Mossy montane forest at elevations of 1300–1600 m in northern Borneo (Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia, and Brunei), likely into northern adjacent Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brunei, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Likely/Controversially Present: Indonesia

Comment

In the Philautus hosii group according to the original publication. See brief account by Malkmus and Riede, 1996, Sauria, Berlin, 18: 21–28. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 122–123, to compare this species to other rhacophorids of the Sunda Shelf region. Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 47, discussed the placement in Leptomantis by Iskandar and Colijn, 2000, Treubia, 31: 1–134. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 186, provided an account. 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: 525.

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