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Nanorana rostandi (Dubois, 1974)
Rana rostandi Dubois, 1974 "1973", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 98: 495. Holotype: MNHNP 1973.310, by original designation. Type locality: "lac Kutsab Terna Tal, altitude 2900 m environ, près du village de Thini, Nord-Ouest Népal (28° 46′ N, 83° 44′ E)."
Rana (Paa) rostandi — Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1098; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.
Paa (Paa) rostandi — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320.
Nanorana rostandi — 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.
Chaparana (Paa) rostandi — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.
Paa rostandi — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 26. See comment under Dicroglossidae.
English Names
Dubois' Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).
Rostand's Paa Frog (Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 80).
Dubois' Frog (Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 88).
Distribution
Western Nepal, 2400–3500 m elevation, and adjacent south-central Tibet, China; expected in eastern Uttarakhand, northern India.
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: China, People's Republic of, Nepal
Likely/controversial occurrence in political unit: India
Comment
Discussed by Dubois, 1976, Cah. Nepal., Doc., 6: 159–178. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 286–290, provided an account for the Nepal population. See brief account (as Rana rostandi) by Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 88. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Paa rostrandi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 492. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted two larval descriptions of varying levels of completeness in the literature. 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., doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 68, for brief account (as Paa rostandi). Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 294–296, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. Khatiwada, Wang, Zhao, Xie, and Jiang, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 1–35, discussed the species in Nepal.
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