Volume 9 | Number 1 | May 2020

v9i1215v9i1.215
ISSN: 1800-427X (printed)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v9i1.215

Published date: 21 May 2020
Pp. 1–2

EDITORIAL : The IUCN Red List and its role in data-driven conservation

Philip Bowles
Deputy Editor: Taprobanica, the journal of Asian Biodiversity

“When in America hundreds of thousands of acres of primeval forest are annually destroyed the conditions of life of a numerous fauna and flora must be thereby suddenly changed, leaving no choice but extermination” – Weissmann 1882
v9i1226v9i1.226
ISSN: 1800-427X (printed)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v9i1.226

Submitted date: 29 July 2020
Accepted date: 30 August 2020
Published date: 03 September 2020
Pp. 121–132, pls. 43–45.

A REASSESSMENT OF THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF THE ASIAN RANID FROG Hylorana nicobariensis STOLICZKA, 1870 (AMPHIBIA : ANURA) WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS

S.R. Chandramouli*, Amir Hamidy & A.A. Thasun Amarasinghe
*Corresponding author. E-mail: findthesnakeman@gmail.com

Abstract
We reassessed the systematic position of the ranid frog Hylorana (=Hylarana) nicobariensis that, owing to its uncertain phylogenetic position and lack of clear morphological characterisation, has lately been allocated to various Asian and African frog genera such as Rana, Sylvirana, Hylarana, Amnirana, and most recently to Indosylvirana. Based on an integrative approach of both phylogenetic and morphological affinities, we describe a new genus to accommodate Hylorana (=Hylarana) nicobariensis and redescribe the species based on new topotypic material from the Nicobar Islands.

Key words : Amnirana, Indosylvirana, phylogeny, Southeast Asia, Sundaland, taxonomy

Section Editor: Enrique La Marca
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Hubungi Kami
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