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Rhacophorus edentulus Müller, 1894
Rhacophorus edentulus Müller, 1894, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 10: 840. Syntypes: BMNH 1894.9.28.3 (now renumbered 1947.2.8.82 by museum records) and NHMB 1180–82, according to Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 544; NHMB 1180 designated lectotype by Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 131. Type locality: "Totoiya-Thaul ca. 500 m.,, Bona-Thaul ca. 500 m., , and Boelawa-Gebirge ca. 1200 m.", Celebes, Indonesia.
Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) edentulus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 155; Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication.
Common Names
Celebes Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113).
Distribution
Sulawesi, Indonesia, 788 to 2179 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia
Endemic: Indonesia
Comment
Not assigned to subgenus by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77. Wanger, Motzke, Saleh, and Iskandar, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 17–29, reported the species from central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Putri, Fahri, and Annawaty, 2018, Nat. Sci., J. Sci. Tech., Sulawesi, 7: 50–56, reported on the species' distribution in central Sulawesi, its natural history, and conservation status. Karin, Krone, Frederick, Hamidy, Laksono, Amini, Arida, Arifin, Bach, Bos, Jennings, Riyanto, Scarpetta, Stubbs, and McGuire, 2023, PeerJ, 11(e15766): 1–19, reported on elevational range in northern Sulawesi.
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