Nidirana adenopleura (Boulenger, 1909)

Common Names

Olive Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106; Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 64).

East China Music Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 176; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Lin, Liu, and Wang, 2017, Amphibia-Reptilia, 38: 494).

Fuhacho Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 25).

Caldwell's Frog (Babina caldwelli [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Distribution

Taiwan; northern Fujian, southern Zhejiang and central Jiangxi, China. See comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Taiwan

Comment

In the Rana (Nidirana) adenopleura group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. Discussed (in the sense of this being a species complex) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 139; (including Rana caldwelli) by Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 534–538, and Matsui and Utsunomiya, 1983, J. Herpetol., 17: 32–37 (who noted that the Ryukyu population was probably taxonomically distinct, now Nidirana okinavana). Locality records in Liu, Hu, Fei, and Huang, 1973, Acta Zool. Sinica, 19: 395 (in the sense of including Nidirana caldwelli); Kuramoto, 1973 "1972", Bull. Fukuoka Univ. Educ., Nat. Sci., 22: 142; and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 185 (in the sense of including Nidirana caldwelli, Nidirana mangveni, Nidirana guangdongensis, and Nidirana xiangica). Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 88, provided the Vietnam record (which may be referable to Hylarana caldwelli). See comments under Rana daunchina and Rana caldwelli, to which most, if not all, records of Vietnam, and Thailand "Rana adenopleura" apply. Thailand is in range according to Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 72, although this is unlike given the revisionary literature that has subsequently appeared. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 55–57, provided an account for Zhejiang populations (now Nidirana adenopleura and Nidirana mangveni). Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 84, provided an account for Guangxi (now presumably Nidirana yaoica). Song, Jang, Zou, and Shi, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 69–79, reported Rana adenopleura from Hainan Island, but presumably this record applies to Rana caldwelli. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 25, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 64–65, provided a brief account for Taiwan (as Rana adenopleura). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1171–1177, provided an account, figures, and map for China (in the sense of including Babina caldwelli) and placed it in their Hylarana (Nidirana) adenopleura group. Chuaynkern, Ohler, Inthara, Duengkae, Makchai, and Salangsingha, 2010, Raffles Bull. Zool., 58: 291–310, confirmed the restriction of Babina adenopleura (as Rana adenopleura) to Taiwan and that specimens from Thailand previously identified as Babina adenopleura are referable to Nidirana lini. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 306–307, provided a brief account (as Hylarana adenopleura) including photographs of specimens and habitat (in the sense of including Nidirana caldwelli, Nidirana mangveni, Nidirana guangdongensis, and Nidirana xiangica). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 344–345, provided an account (as Nidirana adenopleura, in the sense of including mainland populations now assigned to Nidirana caldwelli, Nidirana mangveni, Nidirana guangdongensis, Nidirana xiangica, and Babina lini), photographs, and a range map for China. Zhou, Qiu, Fang, Yang, Zhao, Fang, Zheng, and Liu, 2014, Zool. Res., Kunming, 35: 42–50, reported on call characteristics in China (as Hylarana adenopleura), although the identification now requires confirmation. Yu, Zhang, and Zheng, 2012, Mitochondrial DNA, 23: 423–425, reported on the complete mtDNA genome. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 88, provided a Vietnam record of Rana adenopleura which is likely referable either to Nidirana lini or Rana daunchina. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 22–24, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China, presumably now referable to Nidirana lini.  Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 97–98, provided an account for Hainan as Rana adenopleura, although this is likely now referable to Nidirana hainanensis. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 84–85, provided a brief account, photographs, and map, as Rana adenopleura. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 236–240, provided an account for Hunan, China, presumably covering what is now Nidirana xiangica and possibly Nidirana guangdongensis. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 48, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph (now presumably assingable to Nidirana guangdongensis. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 121–123, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China. Li, Wei, Xu, Cui, Fei, Jiang, Liu, and Wang, 2019, PeerJ, 7(e7157): 1–27, noted that Nidirana leishanensis was previously confused with Nidirana adenopleura, and suggested that this nominal species is likely a complex of species, noting particularly populations in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, China. Subsequently, Lyu, Dai, Li, Wan, Liu, Qi, Lin, Wang, Li, Zeng, Li, Pang, and Wang, 2020, ZooKeys, 914: 127–159, revised populations in China, naming Nidirana xiangica, Nidirana mangveni, and Nidirana guangdongensis, on the basis of molecular, acoustic, and morphometric evidence, thereby restricting Nidirana adenopleura to Taiwan and Jiangxi, Fujian, and southern Zhejiang, China. 

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