Odorrana leporipes (Werner, 1930)

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

Rana leporipes Werner, 1930, Lingnan Sci. J., Canton, 9: 45. Types: "Coll. Mell, No. 1560", presumably transferred NHMW, but not there now, and presumed lost by Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 27; BMNH 1947.2.3.87 (formerly 1929.3.21.1) recorded as a syntype by museum records but this requires confirmation. Type locality: "Lung Tao Shan [= Mt. Longtou], North Kwangtung [= Guangdong Province]", China.

Rana leporipesBain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 27.

Huia leporipesFrost, 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 leporipesChe, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13, by implication.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Eastern Guangxi though Guangdong and southern Jiangxi to northern Fujian, China. 

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Rana livida by Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 27 (who provided an account on page 27–28), where it had been placed by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 371; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 211. Liu, Hou, and Hui, 2022, J. Anim. Diversity, 4(4): 1–11, discussed the distribution of mtDNA matrilines andthe species range. 

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