Composition and distribution of frogs in Crocker Range Park, Sabah, Malaysia, with a description of a new Kalophrynus (Anura, Microhylidae) species

By

Imbun, Paul
Fui Lian, Tan
Lakim, Maklarin
Majuakim, Luiza

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-9-3

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

13

Pages

1--25

Subjects

Borneo , Crocker Range , Distribution , Frogs , Kalophrynus , protected forest , Tropical

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e157470

 

Abstract

We monitored five localities within Crocker Range Park, one of the protected forests administered by Sabah Parks in the Malaysian part of Borneo. The sites selected were at various elevations: lowland sites at 260 m and 499 m a.s.l.; montane sites at 1,216 m, 1,260 m and 1,477 m a.s.l. Forty species were encountered in this study. New discoveries were also found during the course of our three-year period survey (October 2003–October 2006).<br> The discoveries include amongst others, the Sabah endemics of Meristogenys, two new records for Sabah: Sarawakiphrys dringi (Inger, Stuebing and Tan, 1995), and Pelophryne rhopophilia Inger and Stuebing, 1996, as well as a new species, Kalophrynus minutus sp. nov., described herein. These findings provide evidence of many unknown species still waiting to be discovered. These discoveries also add significantly to our understanding of the distribution of frog species in Borneo as a whole, showing that species formerly thought to be very restricted geographically actually have much greater and more extensive distributions within Borneo.