Odorrana chloronota (Günther, 1876)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Odorrana > Species: Odorrana chloronota

Polypedates chloronotus Günther, 1876 "1875", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875: 569. Syntypes: BMNH (10 specimens); according to Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 17, including BMNH 1947.2.28.4 (in error, actually 1947.2.28.6, according to R. Bain, personal commun.), 1947.2.28.6 (in error, actually 1947.2.28.10, according to R. Bain, personal commun.), and 1047.2.28.12 (from Darjeeling). Type locality: "Darjeeling", India.

Rana chloronota — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 29.

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

Rana (Odorrana) chloronota — Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 17.

Odorrana chloronota — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication; Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 54.

Huia chloronota — 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 zhaoi Li, Lu, and Rao, 2008, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 33: 538. Holotype: SYNU 04II6222, by original designation. Type locality: "Yarang, Mêdog County, Tibet (Xizang Autonomous Region) at 767 m". Synonymy by Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 238. 

English Names

Chloronate Huia Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 82).

Copper-cheeked Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 86).

Green Cascade Frog (Vassilieva, Galoyan, Poyarkov, and Geissler, 2016, Photograph. Field Guide Amph. Rept. Lowland S. Vietnam: 108). 

Medog Odorous Frog (Odorrana zhaoi [no longer recognized]: Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 36).

Distribution

Forest montane river cascade systems throughout Southeast Asia from Darjeeling region of West Bengal and mountains of northeastern India (Assam, Meghalaya, and Mizoram) and Sikkim through Myanmar to southeastern Tibet and southern China and Vietnam (Bac Kan, Lang Son, Vinh Phuc, Lai Chau, Quang Ninh, and Lam Dong provinces).

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Rana livida by Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 17, where it had been placed by Boulenger, 1887, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 5: 484; Boulenger, 1890, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. Batr.: 462; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 214; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 371 (with Polypedates smaragdinus by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 69). See account by Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 17-24. See comments under Rana livida for references to this species as Rana livida. Bain and Nguyen, 2004, Am. Mus. Novit., 3453: 12, provided the record for Ha Giang Province, Vietnam. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 29, provided specific localities (as Rana livida) for Vietnam. Stuart, Inger, and Voris, 2006, Biol. Lett., 2: 470-474, provided molecular data and suggested on this basis that nominal Odorrana chloronota represents several unnamed species, of which his Thailand populations represented at least two. Lalremsanga, Sailo, and Hooroo, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 359, provided a record for Mizoram, northeastern India. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature. Wogan, Vindum, Wilkinson, Koo, Slowinski, Win, Thin, Kyi, Oo, Lwin, and Shein, 2008, Hamadryad, 33: 87, provided records from Bago Division, Kachin State, Rakhine State, Sagaing Division, Shan State, and Tanintharyi Division, Myanmar. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 86, provided a brief characterization and a photograph. See account (as Odorrana cf. chloronota), photograph, and map for Vietnam in Vassilieva, Galoyan, Poyarkov, and Geissler, 2016, Photograph. Field Guide Amph. Rept. Lowland S. Vietnam: 108–109, who noted that this is likely a species complex within Vietnam.  Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 36-37, provided an account (as Odorrana zhaoi) for Tibet, China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 400-401, provided an account (as Odorrana zhaoi), photographs, and a range map. Chen, Li, Zhai, Zhu, He, Wang, Li, Jiang, Xiong, and Chen, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 144 (106701): 1–15, provided molecular evidence to place Odorrana zhaoi in a group with Odorrana graminea, Odorrana hosii, and Odorrana rotodora. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 238–243, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. Pham, Do, Ngo, Tran, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2020, Check List, 16: 1025–1041, provided a record from Hai Ha District, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, on the Guangxi, China, border. Luong, Pham, Do, Hoang, Phan, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Le, 2021, Check List, 17: 445–458, provided records from Lai Chau Province, Vietnam, and discussed the range.  

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