Hylarana siberu

Pulchrana siberu

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Hylarana
Species: Hylarana siberu

Name

Hylarana siberu (Dring, McCarthy & Whitten, 1990)

• Holotype: BMNH 1979.306, adult ♂, collected by A.J. Whitten on 11 April 1978.
• Type locality: “Teitei Bulak, Sabeuleleu, Siberut [Island], 1°21′S, 98°59′E”, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.

Combinations

• Rana siberu Dring, McCarthy & Whitten, 1990: 124 [original combination]
• Rana (Pulchrana) siberu — Dubois, 1992: 326 [subsequent combination]
• Rana siberu — Brown & Guttman, 2002: 424 [subsequent combination]
• Pulchrana siberu — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006: 369 [subsequent combination]
• Hylarana siberu — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao & Zhang, 2007 [subsequent combination by implication]
• Hylarana (Pulchrana) siberu — Wu, Xu, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Murphy, Papenfuss, Lathrop, Kilunda, Gao, Yuan, Chen, Zhang, Zhao, Wang, Rahman, Nneji, Zhao, Wang, Jin, Zhang & Che, 2025 [subsequent combination by implication]

References

Primary references

• Dring, J., McCarthy, C.J. & Whitten, A.J. 1990. The terrestrial herpetofauna of the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. Indo-Malayan Zoology 6: 119–132.
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• Wu, Y.-H., Xu, M.-H., Suwannapoom, C., Nguyen, S.N., Murphy, R.W., Papenfuss, T.J., Lathrop, A., Kilunda, F.K., Gao, W., Yuan, Z.-Y., Chen, J.-M., Zhang, L., Zhao, H.-P., Wang, L.-J., Rahman, M.M., Nneji, L.M., Zhao, G.-G., Wang, Y.-Y., Jin, J.-Q., Zhang, P. & Che, J. 2025. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the genus Sylvirana (Anura: Ranidae) highlights unrecognized diversity, revised classification and historical biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 202: 108223. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108223 Reference page. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2018. IUCN: Hylarana siberu  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T78930537A78931147. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T78930537A78931147.en. Accessed on 10 March 2026.

Vernacular names

• English: Siberut Island Frog