Philautus worcesteri (Stejneger, 1905)

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

Cornufer worcesteri Stejneger, 1905, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 28: 345. Holotype: USNM 34784 by original designation. Type locality: "Mount Apo, 6,0000 feet altitude, Mindanao [Island], Philippine Islands".

Rhacophorus emembranatus Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 392. Holotype: FMNH 50684, by original designation. Type locality: "east slope of Mount McKinley, Mindanao, altitude 950 meters", Philippines. Synonymy by Brown, Alcala, and Brown, 1998, J. Herpetol., 32: 131–132.

Philautus emembranatusLiem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 68; Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 528.

Philautus (Philautus) emembranatusDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 72.

Philautus worcesteriBrown, Alcala, and Brown, 1998, J. Herpetol., 32: 131.

English Names

Mindanao Bubble-nest Frog (Philautus emembranatus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).

Distribution

Mountain ranges in Agusan del Norte, Davao, Misamis Occidental, and Zamboanga del Norte provinces, Mindanao, Philippines.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

See account by Brown and Alcala, 1994, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 48: 185–220 (as Philautus emembranatus, and who considered it to be in the Philautus surdus group). Brown, Alcala, and Brown, 1998, J. Herpetol., 32: 131–132, discussed the nomenclature of the species, removing the senior name from the synonymy of Platymantis guentheri, where it had been placed by Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 362. 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: 535. See brief notes for Mindanao, Philippines, by Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 49–50. See comments by Baron, Marin, Logramonte, and Mohagan, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 76–87.

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