Amolops archotaphus (Inger and Chan-ard, 1997)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Amolops > Species: Amolops archotaphus

Rana archotaphus Inger and Chan-ard, 1997, Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc., 45: 66. Holotype: FMNH 214074, by original designation. Type locality: "Dawn Tak Them, Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand at 1100 m".

Huia archotaphus — 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: 368.

Odorrana archotaphus — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, by implication.

Amolops archotaphus — Dubois and Dinesh, 2007, Alytes, 25: 82, provisional suggestion. Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 51.

English Names

Doi Inthanon Rock Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 136).

Distribution

Chiang Mai Province, northwestern Thailand; possibly into adjacent eastern Myanmar.

Comment

Most similar to Rana livida, according to the original publication. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 48, reported the species for Laos, but Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 52, subsequently named this population as Amolops compotrix. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 136-137, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. In the Amolops monticola group of Stuart, Bain, Phimmachak, and Spence, 2010, Herpetologica, 66: 52-66. In the Amolops monticola group of Wu, Yan, Stuart, Prendini, Suwannapoom, Dahn, Zhang, Cai, Xu, Jiang, Chen, Lemmon, Lemmon, Raxworthy, Orlov, Murphy, and Che, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 144 (106701): 1–13, who discussed molecular phylogenetics.

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