Limnonectes namiyei (Stejneger, 1901)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Limnonectes > Species: Limnonectes namiyei

Rana namiyei Stejneger, 1901, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 14: 190. Holotype: TIU 31, lost according to Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 115. Type locality: "Okinawa Shima, Riu Kiu Archipelago", Japan.

Limnonectes (Limnonectes) namiyeiDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 63.

Rana (Limnonectes) namiyeiMaeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 112.

English Names

Okinawa Wart Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 100).

Namie's Frog (Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 115; Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 74).

Distribution

Northern half of Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan

Endemic: Japan

Comment

In the Limnonectes (Limnonectes) kuhlii group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 63, who removed it from the synonymy of Rana kuhlii, where it had been placed by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 62. See Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 136-139; Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 329; and Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 126-130, for accounts. Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 112-115, provided an account. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 74-76, provided an account (as Rana namiyei), map, and photograph. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 483. Suwannapoom, Yuan, Chen, Hou, Zhao, Wang, Nguyen, Murphy, Sullivan, McLeod, and Che, 2016, Zootaxa, 4093: 181–200, suggested on the basis of molecular data that this species is the sister taxon of Limnonectes fujianensis of China.

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