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Chrysopaa sternosignata (Murray, 1885)
Rana sternosignata Murray, 1885, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 16: 120. Syntypes: "Kurrachee Municipal Museum", presumaby the Karachi Museum and likely now lost; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 72, listed two syntypes in the BMNH (1947.2.1.21–22; formerly 1885.7.11.14–15, according to museum records) from Muleer and Quetta. Type localities: "Mulleer [= Malir] near Kurrachee [= Karachi]; Zandra and Quetta, in South Afghanistan" (all localities actually in Pakistan).
Rana (Rana) sternosignata — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 8.
Rana (Paa) sternosignata — Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1098; Dubois, 1976, Cah. Nepal., Doc., 6: 24; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.
Paa (Gynandropaa) sternosignata — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 319.
Nanorana sternosignata — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239, by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 367.
Chrysopaa sternosignata — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 780.
English Names
Baluch Mountain Frog (Minton, 1966, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 134: 57).
Malir Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).
Murray's Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 12).
Karez Frog (Khan, 2002, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 37: 161).
Distribution
Jammu and Kashmir (India), Baluchistan (Pakistan) to eastern Afghanistan; possibly into adjacent India.
Comment
See accounts by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 71, and Khan, 2004, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 39: 45–47. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 134–135, provided a brief account (as Rana sternosignata). Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 152–153, provided range for India and Pakistan, systematic comments, partial taxonomic bibliography, and doubted the Afghanistan records. Khan, 2006, Amph. Rept. Pakistan: 64–65, provided an account for Pakistan. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions of varying levels of completeness in the literature (as Nanorana sternosignata). See localities and range map for Afghanistan by Wagner, Bauer, Leviton, Wilms, and Böhme, 2016, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 63: 457–565. Rais, Ahmed, Sajjad, Akram, Saeed, Hamid, and Abid, 2021, ZooKeys, 1062: 157–175, included this species in an identification key to the amphibian species of Pakistan as well as providing a photograph.
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