Abstract
The Kokarit Frog, recently referred to as Hylarana lateralis (Boulenger), is widely distributed throughout Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam), Thailand, Myanmar and southern China. The position of this species in ranid systematics remains unclear; accordingly to the latest revision by Oliver et al. (2015), it was formally withdrawn from the genus Hylarana, but not assigned to any other hylaranine genus and currently is referred to as “Hylarana” lateralis (Frost 2019).
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