Nanorana bourreti (Anderson, 1879)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Nanorana > Species: Nanorana bourreti

Rana (Paa) bourreti Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 46. Holotype: MNHNP 1948.128 (= LZUH 3.59), by original designation. Type locality: "Chapa [= Sa Pa], Vietnam, 22° 20′ N, 103° 50′ E". 

Paa (Gynandropaa) bourreti — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 319.

Nanorana bourreti — 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; Huang, Zhou, Wang, Liu, and Jiang, 2009, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 34: 385.

Gynandropaa yunnanensis bourreti — Huang, Hu, Wang, Song, Zhou, and Jiang, 2016, Integrative Zool., 11: 144. Provisional arrangement. 

Gynandropaa bourreti — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 25.

Common Names

Bourret's Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).

Bourret's Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 124).

Bourret's Spiny Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 448; Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 26). 

Distribution

Lao Cai, Son La, Cao Bang, Lai Chau, and Nghe An provinces, northern Vietnam, from there to the west and northwest throughout the southern third of Yunnan (Longchuan, Yingjiang, Tengchong, Lianghe, Lvchun, Jingdong, Yongde, Xinping and Zhenyuan), China, and northern Thailand (Chiang Mai); reported from the Fanjing Mountains of northeastern Guizhou, China; records from Myanmar require confirmation; expected in northern Laos. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Laos, Myanmar

Comment

Considered a synonym of Nanorana yunnanensis by Che, Hu, Zhou, Murphy, Papenfuss, Chen, Rao, Li, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 71, and Huang, Hu, Wang, Song, Zhou, and Jiang, 2016, Integrative Zool., 11: 145, but revalidated on the basis of molecular evidence by Huang, Zhou, Wang, Liu, and Jiang, 2009, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 34: 385-390, who noted that the Jingdong, Yunnan, China, population of nominal Nanorana yunnanensis is better assigned to Nanorana bourreti (as Paa).See accounts by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 161–163; and Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 286; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 219–221. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 187, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 92–93 (as Rana bourreti). Reported (as Rana bourreti) for Thailand by Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 72. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 124–125, provided a very brief account (as Rana bourreti), map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 24-25, provided specific localities (as Paa bourreti) for Vietnam. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature (as Nanorana bourreti). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1421–1429, provided accounts (as Paa yunnanensis) for China, figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa yunnanensis group. Chen and Ye, 2009, Zool. Res., Kunming, 30: 662–670, reported on a predictive distribution of the species in Yunnan, China, apparently in the sense of including Nanorana bourreti in synonymy. Nanorana bourreti was considered a synonym of Nanorana yunnanensis by Che, Hu, Zhou, Murphy, Papenfuss, Chen, Rao, Li, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 71, but revalidated on the basis of molecular evidence by Huang, Zhou, Wang, Liu, and Jiang, 2009, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 34: 385–390, only to be resynonymized by Huang, Hu, Wang, Song, Zhou, and Jiang, 2016, Integrative Zool., 11: 145. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 448, provided an account (as Gynandropaa bourreti), photographs, and a range map for China. See comment under Nanorana yunnanensis. Not addressed, and therefore not assigned to subgenus, by Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107: 13765-13770, and Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 107(31): 2. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 136, detailed the range in Thailand. Chen, 2011, Stud. Phylogeogr. Paa yunnanensis: 1–129, reported on molecular phylogeography and considered Paa sichuanensis, Paa bourreti, and Paa liui as synonyms of Paa yunnanensis, although this was not followed by subsequent authors. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 448, provided an account (as Gynandropaa bourreti), photographs, and a range map for China.  Zhang, Chen, Murphy, Che, Pang, Hu, Luo, Wu, Ye, and Zhang, Mol. Ecol., 19: 3406–3420, reported on mtDNA biogeography within China. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 149–152, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China. Pham and Nguyen, 2018, VNU J. Sci. Nat. Sci. Tech., 34: 10–16, provided a record for Son La Province, Vietnam. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 292–293, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Provisionally regarded as a subspecies of Gynandropaa yunnanensis by Huang, Hu, Wang, Song, Zhou, and Jiang, 2016, Integrative Zool., 11: 146. Although considered Nanorana yunnanensis a possible subspecies of Nanorana phrynoides), and Huang, Hu, Wang, Song, Zhou, and Jiang, 2016, Integrative Zool., 11: 145, regarded the taxon as a likely subspecies.  Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 72–73, provided photographs, a brief account for Thailand, and a range map. Luong, Pham, Do, Hoang, Phan, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Le, 2021, Check List, 17: 445–458, provided records from Lai Chau Province, Vietnam, and discussed the range. Reported (as Rana bourreti) for Thailand by Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 72. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 26, recognized Nanorana bourreti and Nanorana yunnanensis as distinct, but confusingly also wrote "Taxonomic distinctiveness of this species from Nanorana yunnanensis (Anderson, 1879) requires further confirmation". Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 24, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar although records from Myanmar requires confirmation. Thongproh, Chunskul, Makchai, Cota, Safoowong, Duengkae, Duangjai, Thitichayaporn, Chuaynkern, and Chuaynkern, 2023, Zootaxa, 5263: 365–388, provided genetic confirmation for the Thai records, an mtDNA tree of this species and close relatives, and described larval morphology. 

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