Morphology and Systematics of Kalophrynus interlineatus-pleurostigma Populations (Anura: Microhylidae: Kalophryninae) and a Taxonomy of the Genus Kalophrynus Tschudi, Asian Sticky Frogs
Author
Zug, George R.
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Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
2015
2015-04-15
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10.5281/zenodo.11512244
0068-547X
11512244
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Kalophrynus bunguranus
(
Günther, 1895
) Natuna Sticky Frog
Diplopelma bunguranum
Günther, 1895
,
Novitates Zoologicae
2:501 [
type
locality: “Bunguran, or Great Natuna [
Island
]”,
Indonesia
].
TYPE
MATERIAL
.—
SYNTYPES
: number and deposition not noted in original publication, presumably
BMNH
;
British Museum of Natural History
1947.2.11.
38–41 (formerly 95.5.1.105–108) according to
R
.
F. Inger
(in
Frost, 1985
)
.
DEFINITION
.— Small, adult females
25–27 mm
SVL
, adult males
22–23 mm
SVL
; head medium length 28 % HeadL/
SVL
; head slightly wider than long 113 % HeadW/HeadL; naris closer to snout than to eye NA % NarEye/SnEye; eye moderately large 45 % EyeD/HeadL; tympanum visible and smaller than eye 61 % Tymp/EyeD; slender moderately long forelimb 29–31 % Forarm/
SVL
and forearm to crus length NA % Forarm/CrusL; hindlimb moderately long HndlL/
SVL
, NA % CrusL/
SVL
, and NA % CrusL/ThghL; hindfoot well developed 85 % HndfL/CrusL.
Vomerine teeth presences or absence not reported; palatal fold morphology not reported; tongue large, subelliptical and entire behind.
Fingers without web; lengths 3>2≈1>4 (nub-like); tips rounded; subarticular tubercles not reported; palmar tubercle not repored; spiny nuptial excrescences dorsally on base of fingers 1 to 3 and adjacent hand of males (fide Parker; see comment). Toes weakly webbed, lengths 4>3>5>2>1; tips rounded, not dilated; subarticular tubercles indistinct, numbers on toes not reported; indistinct inner and outer metatarsal tubercles.
Color in life unknown. Dorsum purplish brown, no mark mentioned; large dark brown, oval black inguinal spot without light border; loris edged with reddish rose that extends posteriorly above eye and onto and widening on trunk to inguina and hindlimbs; loris, chin to anterior chest black fading to yellowish.
ETYMOLOGY
.— Great Natuna Island is also called Bunguran, whence the name of the species as a resident of Bunguran.
DISTRIBUTION
.— Great Natuna Island.
NATURAL
HISTORY
.— Günther considered it a common frog owing to its abundance in collections.
COMMENTS
.— Preceding information extracted from
Günther (1895)
and
Parker (1934)
. Parker considered
C. heterochirus
Boulenger
as a synonym of
K. bunguranus
and may have included traits of the former in the description of the latter. Parker reported nuptial pads on dorsum of fingers;
Inger (1966
: table 16) specifically noted their absence.