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Quasipaa jiulongensis (Huang and Liu, 1985)
Rana jiulongensis Huang and Liu, 1985, J. Fudan Univ. Nat. Sci., 24: 235, 237. Holotype: FU 83001, by original designation. Type locality: "Shang Che Pen of Jiulong Shan [= Mt. Jiulong], Suichang Xian [= County], altitue 1060 m; Zhejiang [Province]", China, 1060 m elevation.
Paa (Paa) jiulongensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 157; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 208.
Paa (Quasipaa) jiulongensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320.
Rana jiulongensis — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 143.
Nanorana jiulongensis — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239, by implication.
Quasipaa jiulongensis — Frost, 2006, Amph. Spec. World, vers. 4.0: 358.
Quasipaa (Quasipaa) jiulongensis — Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2.
Common Names
Jiulong Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).
Jiulong Spiny Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 208).
Distribution
Mountains (1060 m) of southwestern Zhejiang and adjacent Fujian, China, above 800 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of
Endemic: China, People's Republic of
Comment
Related to Rana spinosa according to original publication. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 208-209, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 60-61, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Paa jiulongensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 490. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1371-1375, provided an account (as Paa jiulongensis), figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa spinosa group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 366-367, provided a brief account (as Paa exilispinosa) for China including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 464-465, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Yan, Nneji, Jin, Yuan, Chen, Mi, Chen, Murphy, and Che, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 163 (107218): 1–7, reported on phylogenetics.
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