Pelophylax hubeiensis (Fei and Ye, 1982)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Pelophylax > Species: Pelophylax hubeiensis

Rana hubeiensis Fei and Ye, 1982, Acta Zool. Sinica, 28: 293, 301. Holotype: CIB 74I0570, by original designation. Type locality: "Lichuan Xian, Hubei, alt. 1070 m", China.

Rana (Rana) hubeiensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41–42, by implication.

Pelophylax hubeiensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 133–134.

Rana (Pelophylax) hubeiensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332.

Pelophylax hubeiensis — Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 221; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication.

Hylarana hubeiensis — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237, by implication.

Palophylax hubeiensis — Zhao, Wang, Wang, Liu, and Lu, 2015, J. Henan Normal Univ. (Nat. Sci.), 46: 708. Misspelling of generic name.

Pelophylax plancyi hubeiensis — Dufresnes, Monod-Broca, Bellati, Canestrelli, Ambu, Wielstra, Dubey, Crochet, Denoël, and Jablonski, 2024, Global Change Biol., 30 (e17180): 7. Table S1. 

Common Names

Hubei Gold-striped Pond Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 160).

湖北侧褶蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 10).

Hubei Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Distribution

Chongqing and it is likely present in extreme eastern Sichuan; the species is present in Western Hubei to the border with Jingzhou; likely present all the way to Wuhan but this (and populations to the east) requires confirmation. In Hunan, the presence of the species is confirmed north of the Yangtze River, but it is likely to be present further south until the mountainous area. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Mou and Zhao, 1992, in Jiang (ed.), Collect. Pap. Herpetol.: 15–26, suggested on the basis of identical call parameters, that Pelophylax hubeiensis is a junior synonym of Pelophylax plancyi. This was followed by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 147. But, Pelophylax hubeiensis was retained (as Pelophylax hubeiensis) by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 221; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 160–161. See comment under Pelophylax plancyi. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 174, provided a brief account and illustration (as Pelophylax hubeiensis). In the Pelophylax plancyi group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 110. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1043–1049, provided an account, figures, and map for China and included it in their Pelophylax plancyi group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 284–285, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 320–321, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. See comments by Zhao, Wang, Wang, Liu, and Lu, 2015, J. Henan Normal Univ. (Nat. Sci.), 46: 705–711. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 213–217, provided a detailed account for Hunan, China. Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 727, placed Pelophylax hubeiensis into the synonymy of Pelophylax plancyi on the basis of low genetic distances. Conversely, Zhou, Zhang, Hu, Xia, Miao, Guan, and Shi, 2023, Herpetozoa, Wien, 36: 143–152, provided morphological and mtDNA evidence of the species distinction of Pelophylax hubeiensis from Pelophylax plancyi. 

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