Gracixalus medogensis (Ye and Hu, 1984)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Gracixalus > Species: Gracixalus medogensis

Philautus medogensis Ye and Hu, 1984, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 3 (4): 67, 69. Holotype: CIB 73II0051, by original designation. Type locality: "Medog County, Xizang Autonomous Region [= Tibet], altitude 1,500 m", China; given as "Xigonghu, Motuo, Xizang, China" by Li, Chen, Li, Lv, and Wang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 132.

Philautus (Philautus) medogensisBossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 55.

Aquixalus medogensisFei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 686.

Gracixalus medogensisLi, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 520.

English Names

Medog Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 70).

Medog Small Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 254).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Medog County, Xizang, China); presumably to be found in adjacent Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Related to Philautus jinxiuensis according to original publication. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 319; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 254-255. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 686-688, provided an account (as Aquixalus medogensis) for China, illustration of the holotype, and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 432, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus medogensis). Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 70-71, provided an account (as Philautus medogensis) for Xizang, China. Li, Chen, Li, Lv, and Wang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 136, provided photographs of the holotype. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 509, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 331–3333, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. 

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