Rana okiensis Daito, 1969

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Rana > Species: Rana okiensis

Rana tagoi okiensis Daito, 1969, Zool. Mag., Tokyo, 78: 406. Holotype: Not designated. Type locality: XXX; given "Oki Islands (probably Dogo Island), Shimane prefecture", Japan, by Shibata, 1988, Bull. Osaka Mus. Nat. Hist., 43: 43–56, and "Dogo I., Oki Is.", Japan, by Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 63.

Rana okiensis — Eto and Matsui, 2023, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 42: 198. 

English Names

Oki Tago's Brown Frog (Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 59).

Yakushima Tago's Brown Frog (Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 59).

Oki Brown Frog (Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 102).

Distribution

Oki Islands, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan

Endemic: Japan

Comment

Considered a distinct species by Eto and Matsui, 2023, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 42: 191–209, who reviewed earlier literature and provided morphological, mtDNA, and call evidence in support of the taxonomic change. See comments under Rana tagoi for access to literature from when this taxon was considered a subspecies of Rana tagoi.

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