Indosylvirana aurantiaca

Indosylvirana aurantiaca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Indosylvirana
Species: Indosylvirana aurantiaca

Name

• Indosylvirana aurantiaca (Boulenger, 1904)

Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.2.92, adult ♀.

Type locality: “near Trivandrum, Travancore [=Kerala]”, Thiruvananthapuram dist., Kerala state, India.

Combinations

• Rana aurantiaca Boulenger, 1904: 430 [original combination]
• Rana (Hylorana) aurantiaca — Boulenger, 1920: 127–130 [name combination]
• Rana (Sylvirana) aurantiaca — Dubois, 1992: 326 [name combination]
• Hylarana aurantiaca — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho & Somorjai, 2005: 237 [name combination, by implication]
• Sylvirana aurantiaca — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto,Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006: 370 [name combination]
• Indosylvirana aurantica — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus & Raxworthy, 2015: 188 [name combination]

References

Primary references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1904. Descriptions of three new frogs from southern India and Ceylon. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 15: 430–431.
• Oliver, L.A., Prendini, E., Kraus, F. & Raxworthy, C.J. 2015. Systematics and biogeography of the Hylarana frog (Anura: Ranidae) radiation across tropical Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 90: 176–192. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.001 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ukuwela, K.D.B. 2009. Description of the tadpole of Hylarana aurantiaca (Anura: Ranidae) from Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 2016: 67–68. Abstract & excerpt.

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Indosylvirana aurantiaca . Accessed on 29 June 2008.
• Biju, S.D., Manamendra-Arachchi, K., Dutta, S., Inger, R. & Silva, A. 2004. IUCN: Indosylvirana aurantiaca  (Vulnerable). (errata version published in 2016) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58551A89365142. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58551A11801743.en

Vernacular names

English: Golden Frog, Boulenger's Golden-backed Frog