Rana rufipes Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2008

Teynié, Alexandre, David, Patrick & Ohler, Annemarie, 2010, Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo, Zootaxa 2416, pp. 1-43 : 11

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Rana rufipes Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2008 View in CoL

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Material examined. MNHN 2003.3407 (adult female; SVL 50.3 mm), between Lubuksao and Mukomuko, Province of Sumatra-Barat, elev. 440 m; other specimens observed in Maninjau, Mukomuko, and Lubuksao, Province of Sumatera Barat, elev. 400– 500 m.

Taxonomic comments. Stuart et al. (2006) showed existence of sibling species in Rana chalconota , Rana labialis and Rana raniceps . These authors also showed true Rana chalconota to be restricted to Java and southern Sumatra, true Rana labialis to be restricted to West Malaysia and true Rana raniceps to Borneo. Inger et al. (2008) described two new species from Sumatra. The specimen collected by us resembles more to the specimens allocated to R. cf. chalconota from Padang ( Inger & Iskandar 2005) because of its large size and relative short tibia (495 ‰ of SVL). Thus our specimen seems to belong to Rana rufipes though it is smaller than the 6 females studied by Inger et al. (2008). Nevertheless it is larger than the 15 specimens of Rana parvacola which measure 37.8–43.0 mm.

Distribution on Sumatra. Known from the province of Sumatra Barat.

Biology. This rather common species is active at day and especially by night. Specimens were observed in forest and in more open areas or in transitions between forests and fields. The species was seen in August and November.

References

Stuart, B. L., Inger, R. F. & Voris, H. K. (2006) High level of cryptic species diversity revealed by sympatric lineages of Southeast Asian forest frogs. Biology Letters, 2, 470 - 474.

Inger, R. F., Stuart, B. L. & Iskandar, D. T. (2008) Systematics of a widespread Southeast Asian frog, Rana chalconota (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 155 [2009], 123 - 147.

Inger, R. F. & Iskandar, D. T. (2005) A collection of amphibians from West Sumatra, with description of a new species of Megophrys (Amphibia: Anura). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 53, 133 - 142.

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FIGURE 4. (a) Limnonectes sp. MNHN 2003.3405, young male; (b) Limnonectes shompenorum Das, 1996. MNHN 2003.3377, adult female; (c) Huia sumatrana Yang, 1991. MNHN 2003.3379, adult female; (d) Rana rufipes Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2008. MNHN 2003.3407, adult female; (e) Rana erythraea (Schlegel, 1837). Not collected; (f) Ichthyophis paucisulcus Taylor, 1960. MNHN 2003.3409, probably adult.