Pelophylax mongolius (Schmidt, 1925)

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

Rana nigromaculata mongolia Schmidt, 1925, Am. Mus. Novit., 175: 1. Holotype: AMNH 18149, by original designation. Type locality: "Mai Tai Chao [= Tumd Zuoqi], northern Shansi [now part of Nei Mongol Autonomous Region]", China.

Rana tenggerensis Zhao, Macey, and Papenfuss, 1988, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 2: 1. Holotype: CIB 80001, by original designation. Type locality: "along the north shore of the Yellow River (Huang He), at Shapatou Desert Research Station, Shapotou (37° 30′N 104° 58′E), Yinnan Prefecture, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China". Synonymy by Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 728, and Zhou, He, Ma, Xu, Zhai, Guan, Wang, and Shi, 2022, Zootaxa, 5165: 486.

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

Pelophylax tenggerensis — 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: 369; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13; by implication.

Pelophylax mongolius — Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 728 (25 June 2022); Zhou, He, Ma, Xu, Zhai, Guan, Wang, and Shi, 2022, Zootaxa, 5165: 486 (17 July 2022).

Pelophylax mongolicus — Zhou, He, Ma, Xu, Zhai, Guan, Wang, and Shi, 2022, Zootaxa, 5165: 486. Incorrect subsequent spelling. 

Common Names

Yellow River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).

Yellow River Pond Frog (Borzée, 2024, Continental NE Asian Amph.: 114).  

Distribution

Known from the provinces of Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, and Shaanxi, China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

 Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 230, did not mention Rana tenggerensis, implying synonymy with Rana nigromaculata. Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 305–352, and Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 178–179, also did not mention Rana tenggerensis. Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 146, treated Rana nigromaculata mongolia as a synonym of Rana nigromaculata but retained Rana tenggerensis as distinct. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana tenggerensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 513. Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 728, discussed the taxon and its molecular markers and provided the older name Pelophylax mongolius for Pelophylax teggerensis as did Zhou, He, Ma, Xu, Zhai, Guan, Wang, and Shi, 2022, Zootaxa, 5165: 486–500, a couple of weeks later, as well as providing a distribution map, discussion of morphology, and molecular markers (placing this species as the sister of Pelophylax fukienensis. Borzée, 2024, Continental NE Asian Amph.: 114–118, provided a detailed account (distribution including a polygon map, habitat, ecology, conservation, photos of larvae and adults, identification tools) for northeastern Asia.  

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