Nanorana phrynoides (Boulenger, 1917)

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

Rana phrynoides Boulenger, 1917, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 20: 413. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.3.76–82; BMNH 1947.2.3.76 designated lectotype by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 45. Type locality: "Yunnan at Tongchuan fu", Yunnan, China, corrected to Dongchuan District of Kunming City by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 45, and Huang, Hu, Wang, Song, Zhou, and Jiang, 2016, Integrative Zool., 11: 144. 

Rana (Rana) phrynoides — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 8.

Rana (Paa) phrynoides — Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1097; Dubois, 1976, Cah. Nepal., Doc., 6: 24.

Gynandropaa phrynoidesHuang, Hu, Wang, Song, Zhou, and Jiang, 2016, Integrative Zool., 11: 144. 

Nanorana phrynoides — Sun, Fu, Jin, Murphy, Hillis, Zhang, and Che, 2018, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA: 10634. 

Nanorana (Chaparana) phrynoides — Tang, Liu, and Yu, 2023, Animals, 13(3427): 17.

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Western Guizhou Province (Shuicheng, Weining) and eastern to central Yunnan Province (Dongchuan, Yimen, Guandu), China, 1400 to 2100 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Nanorana yunnanensis by Huang, Hu, Wang, Song, Zhou, and Jiang, 2016, Integrative Zool., 11: 144, where it had been placed by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 162, and Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 45.

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