Hylarana latouchii (Boulenger, 1899)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hylarana > Species: Hylarana latouchii

Rana latouchii Boulenger, 1899, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899: 167. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 138, mentions 3 types. BMNH records show three syntypes, these being 1947.2.1.81 (formerly 1898.9.15.4) and 1947.2.1.82–83 (formerly 1899.4.24.70–71). Type locality: "Kuatun, a village about 270 miles from Foochow [= Fuzhou Shi, Chongan County], in the mountains at the North-west of the Province of Fokien [=Fujian], at an altitude of 3000 to 4000 feet or more", China.

Rana (Hylorana) latouchii — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127–130.

Hylorana latouchii — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.

Rana latouchii — Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 188; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 59.

Rana (Hylarana) latouchii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.

Hylarana (Hylarana) latouchii — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 140; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 243.

Rana (Sylvirana) latouchii — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Hylarana latouchii — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237, by implication; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 424.

Sylvirana latouchii — 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: 370; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.

Hylarana (Sylvirana) latouchii — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1134.

Hylarana (Pterorana) latouchii — Wu, Xu, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Murphy, Papenfuss, Lathrop, Kilunda, Gao, Yuan, Chen, Zhang, Zhao, Wang, Rahman, Nneji, Zhao, Wang, Jin, Zhang, and Che, 2024 "2025", Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108223: 1–11, by implication.

Common Names

Kuatun Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

LaTouche's Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 29).

Latouche's Frog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 74).

Brown Wood Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 29; Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 74).

Broad-folded Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 174).

Distribution

Southern China (Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Anhui) and Taiwan; Hai Phong City and Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam

Comment

Prior to the revision of 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, placed in the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Sylvirana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. See Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 136; Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 531–534, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 188–190. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 239; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 174–175. Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 29, provided a brief account. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 6264, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 86, provided an account for Guangxi. In the Hylarana (Hylarana) latouchii group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 117. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 74–75, provided a brief account for Taiwan (as Rana latouchii). Jang-Liaw, Lee, and Chou, 2008, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 25: 68–79, discussed molecular phylogeography in Taiwan and provided evidence that the mainland population may not be conspecific with the Taiwan population and that the Taiwan range may conceal multiple mildly distinct populations. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1134–1139, provided an account, figures, and map for China and placed it in their Hylarana (Sylvirana) latouchii group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 315, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 355, provided an account (as Sylvirana latouchii), photographs, and a range map for China.  Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 188, noted that this species is likely in either Hydrophylax or Indosylvirana, but pending genetic sampling declined to make any taxonomic changes; here it is formally removed from Hylarana, which these authors rendered a monophyletic group. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 92–93, provided, as Rana latouchii, a brief account, photographs, and map. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 233–236, provided a detailed account for Hunan, China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 47, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Tran, Hoang, Luong, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Pham, 2023, Biodiversity Data J.,  11(e109726): 1–18, reported the species from Cat Ba National Park, Hai Phong City and Bai Tu Long National Park, Quang Ninh Province in northern Vietnam, identified on the basis of morphology and 16s mtDNA. Kohler, Zhang, Messenger, An, Ghosh, Othman, Wang, Amin, Prasad, Wu, and Borzée, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 85–93, provided new records from Jiangsu, China, as well as a dot map for the species range. 

        

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