Odorrana schmackeri (Boettger, 1892)

Common Names

Schmacker's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109; Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 140).

Piebald Odorous Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 198).

Kaochahien Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 31).

Schmacker’s Odorous Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 51). 

Distribution

Isolated populations in southern and south-central China in Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hunan (see comment), Sichuan (see comment), Guizhou (see comment), Hubei (see comment), southern Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces, at 200–1400 m elevation; reports from Vietnam and Thailand (Chiang Mai) require confirmation (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, Rana (Odorrana) andersonii group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. Discussed by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 176; Chang and Hsü, 1932, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc., China, Zool. Ser., 8: 165–169, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 208–211. See comment under Rana grahami. Removed from the synonymy of Rana andersonii by Pope and Boring, 1940, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 15: 62, where it had been placed by Schmidt, 1927, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 54: 553–575; and Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 551. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 266; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 200–201. Thailand is in range according to Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 73, although this needs to be confirmed. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 202, provided a brief account and illustration. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 70–72, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 105, provided an account (as Odorrana schmackeri) for Guangxi. Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528–534, placed this in their Odorrana schmackeri group. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 90, stated the species to occur in Vietnam but did not substantiate this with reference to voucher specimens. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 140–141, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 31, noted the presence of this species in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. In the Odorrana (Odorrana) schmackeri group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126. See comment under Odorrana nanjiangensis. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1283–1289, provided an account, figures, and map for China, and placed it in their Odorrana (Odorrana) schmackeri group. Records from Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, China, are now referred to Odorrana huangangensis. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 341–343, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 388–389, provided an account, 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. Yao and Gong, 2012, Amph. Rept. Gansu: 58–59, provided a brief account and photographs. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 254–258, provided an account for Hunan, China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 54, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. With the naming of the cryptic species, Odorrana ichangensis from Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou, and Chongqing City, the range of Odorrana schmackeri becomes murky so literature of nominal Odorrana schmackeri from these area requires care. He, Zhu, Feng, Li, Chen, and Chen, 2017, Chinese J. Zool., 52: 607–619, addressed the molecular phylogenetics of Odorrana schmackeri complex populations in Hubei, Hunan, and Fujian China, relegating populations in Fujian to Odorrana huanggangensis and those from Hubei and Hunan to Odorrana schmackeri. These authors referred to the complex as endemic to China, implying that the records from Vietnam apply to some other species. Li, Xu, Lv, Jiang, Wei, and Wang, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e5695): 1–28, mapped the species in Thailand and Vietnam for undisclosed reasons but did not sample from those areas for their phylogenetic study of the Odorrana schmackeri group in China. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 360–361, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Shen, Zhu, Li, Chen, and Chen, 2020, Asian Herpetol. Res., 11: 297–311, redescribed the holotype and discussed the systematics of near relatives. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 51, considered Vietnam and Thailand records dubious.

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