Rana dybowskii Günther, 1876

English Names

Dybowski's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107; Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 355).

Dybowski's Brown Frog (Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 83; Yang, Kim, Min, and Suh, 2001, Monogr. Korean Amph.: 62; Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 64).

Dybovski's Frog (Kuzmin and Maslova, 2003, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 8: 209).

Northeast China Brown Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 302). 

Distribution

Russian Far East (excluding Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands) north to 63°; northeastern China south to southern Liaoning and throughout most of P.D.R. Korea. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Korea, Democratic People's Republic (North), Russia

Comment

In the Rana chensinensis group, subgenus Rana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333. In the Rana chensinensis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 107. Discussed (as Rana temporaria) by Shannon, 1956, Herpetologica, 12: 38–39. See Rana chensinensis. Genetic relationships with other members of Rana temporaria group examined by Kawamura, Nishioka, and Ueda, 1981, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 5: 196–323. See comment under Rana chensinensis with which it has been confused. See Tanaka-Ueno, Matsui, Sato, Takenaka, and Takenaka, 1998, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 15: 289–294, for complicated taxonomic history. Matsui, Tanaka-Ueno, Paik, Yang, and Takenaka, 1998, Japan. J. Herpetol., 17: 145–151, noted serious errors in previous literature, and suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that the Korean and Far Eastern Russian populations represented different species, with the Russian population bearing the name Rana dybowskii, although even the application of this name requires further investigation according to these authors; see the recently named Rana uenoi which is the Japanese and Korean component. Lee, Yang, and Lee, 2000, Korean J. Biol. Sci., 4: 31–37, on the basis of molecular evidence suggested that at least two species were masquerading under the name "Rana dybowskii" in South Korea. One of this was identified later as Rana huanrenensis by Yang, Kim, Min, Suh, Kang, Matsui, and Fei, 2000, Korean J. Biol. Sci., 4: 45–50. See comment under Rana pirica, with which this species was formerly confused. Tanaka-Ueno, Matsui, Sato, Takenaka, and Takenaka, 1998, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 15: 289–294, noted that the population on Tshushima I., now named as Rana uenoi, is genetically distinct from Japanese mainland populations. Kim, Min, Yang, and Matsui, 2002, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 19: 369–382, reported on evolutionary relationships of this species with other Asian brown frogs. Sumida, Ueda, and Nishioka, 2003, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 20: 567–580, reported on molecular phylogenetic relationships and reproductive incompatability of this species with other brown frogs in East Asia. Yang, Kim, Min, and Suh, 2001, Monogr. Korean Amph.: 62–63, provided a brief account, figure, and map for South Korea. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 64–65, provided an account for Japan, map, and photograph. Kuzmin and Maslova, 2003, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 8: 209–260, provided an extensive account for the populations in the Russian Far East, with a detailed discussion of the history of confusion between Rana amurensis, Rana asiatica, Rana chensinensis, Rana dybowskii, and Rana temporaria, and noted that nominal Rana dybowskii probably still covers more than one species. Li, Lu, and Li, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 268–270, provided a distribution map for China. Li, Lu, Wang, Wang, Fang, and Li, 2005, Herpetol. Sinica, 10: 63–67, compared this species in northeastern China with Rana zhenhaiensis, Rana chensinensis, Rana amurensis, Rana huanrenensis, and Rana kukunoris. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1010–1018, provided an account for China and included it in their Rana asiatica group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 268–269, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 302–303, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Kuzmin, 2013, Amph. Former Soviet Union, Ed. 2: 221–226, provided an account for the former USSR. See Rana uenoi, which likely applies to the South Korean records formerly assigned to Rana dybowski. Adnagulov, 2016, Curr. Stud. Herpetol., Saratov, 16: 87–106, provided a dot map and discussion for Evreiskaya Autonomous Oblast, Far East Russia.  Yang, Zhou, Min, Matsui, Dong, Li, and Fong, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 112: 148–157, reported on the molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of this species within the Rana dybowskii species complex. Kuzmin, Dunayev, Munkhbayar, Munkhbaatar, and Terbish, 2017, in Kuzmin (ed.), Amph. Mongolia: 195, suggested that Rana dybowskii does not enter eastern Mongolia, although a population they referred to Rana chensinensis has been confused with that species. Li, Lian, and Lu, 2010, Res. Tadpoles Liaoning: 44–48, described and pictured the larva. Borzée, Litvinchuk, Ri, Andersen, Nam, Jon, Man, Choe, Kwon, Othman, Messenger, Bae, Shin, Kim, Maslova, Luedtke, Hobin, Moores, Seliger, Glenk, and Jang, 2021, Animals, 11 (2057): 1–37, provided locality records, a distribution map as well as modeled distribution, life history comments, and conservation status for P.D.R. Korea.  

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