Pelophylax plancyi (Lataste, 1880)

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

Rana plancyi Lataste, 1880, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 5: 64. also Lataste, 1880, Le Naturaliste, 2: 210. Syntypes: Not traced, 2 specimens presumably originally in presumably in Lataste's personal collection which was deposited ultimately in the BMNH; BMNH 1920.1.20.1020 is by museum records a syntype. Neotype (presumably invalidly designated in the face of the existing BMNH specimen) designated as CIB 79I1764 by Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1056. Type locality: "Kiu-Kiang" [= Jiujiang Shi], Jiangxi Province, China. Given in error as "Peking", China by Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 32. Neotype from "Yongfeng, Beijiang City, [Jiangxi Province,] China". The status of this neotype designation is questionable, given that the original syntypes may still exist.

Rana (Rana) plancyi — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 9.

Rana plancyi plancyi — Kuramoto, 1983, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 6: 253; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 147.

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

Pelophylax plancyi — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 133–134; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13; by implication.

Pelophylax plancyi plancyi — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 133–134; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 227; 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.

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

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

Common Names

Beijing Gold-striped Pond Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 162).

Green Pond Frog (Liu, 1931, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 5: 53; Boring, Liu, and Chou, 1932, Handb. N. China, Amph. Rept.: 33).

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

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

Distribution

Extreme northern Fujian north and west to Shanxi and northern Hebei, with an isolated record in southeastern Liaoning, China, 50 to 200 m elevation. See comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Comment

See Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 101–102; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 85; Okada, 1931, Tailless Batr. Japan. Empire: 92–95, for synonymy and account. See english summary of morphology (as Rana nigromaculata coreana) by Okada, 1928, Annot. Zool. Japon., 11: 270–271.  See also Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 509–510; Shannon, 1956, Herpetologica, 12: 36–38; and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 166–167. Relationships with Rana nigromaculata discussed by Kawamura and Nishioka, 1979, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 55: 171–185. Kuramoto, 1983, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 6: 253–267, suggested that Pelophylax plancyi fukienensis and Pelophylax plancyi chosenicus (as Rana) might best be regarded as distinct species, Pelophylax fukienensis and Pelophylax chosenicus. Nishioka, Okumoto, and Ryuzaki, 1987, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 9: 161, noted some reduced fertility between Pelophylax chosenicus and Pelophylax fukienensis (as subspecies of Pelophylax plancyi).  See also Yang, Yu, and Park, 1988, Korean J. Zool., 31: 1–10, Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 146–147; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 227; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 160–161, who regarded Pelophylax fukienensis as a subspecies of Pelophylax plancyi pending more thorough evaluation of the Chinese mainland populations. Pelophylax hubeiensis considered a synonym (as Rana) of Pelophylax plancyi; without discussion, by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 147. Ueda, 1994, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 13: 197–232, noted that Pelophylax plancyi plancyi, Pelophylax plancyi chosenicus, and Pelophylax plancyi fukienensis (all as Rana) had three distinct call types. Fan, Guo, and Liu, 1998, Amph. Rept. Shanxi Prov.: 66–68, provided an account for Shanxi. Yang, Kim, Min, and Suh, 2001, Monogr. Korean Amph.: 68-69, provided a brief account, figure, and map for South Korea (as Rana plancyi). Yang, Kim, Min, and Suh, 2001, Monogr. Korean Amph.: 68–69, provided a brief account, figure, and map for South Korea (as Rana plancyi). In the Pelophylax plancyi group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 110. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana chosenica) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 503. Ra, Sung, Cheong, Lee, Eom, and Park, 2008, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 25: 894-903, reported on conservation biology (as Pelophylax chosenicus).  Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1056–1061, provided an account, figures, and map for China and included it in their Pelophylax plancyi group.. Ra, Park, Cheong, Kim, and Sung, 2010, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 27: 396–401, reported (as Pelophylax chosenicus) on habitat preference and conservation biology.  Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 288, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 322, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Li, Lian, and Lu, 2010, Res. Tadpoles Liaoning: 38–41, described and pictured the larva. Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 727, placed Pelophylax chosenicus and Pelophylax hubeiensis in synonymy on the basis of low genetic distances. Dot map and discussion of status (as Pelophylax chosenicus) for North Korea provided by Song, 2016, J. Natl. Park Res., Rep. Korea, 7: 211–217. Borzée, Litvinchuk, Ri, Andersen, Nam, Jon, Man, Choe, Kwon, Othman, Messenger, Bae, Shin, Kim, Maslova, Luedtke, Hobin, Moores, Seliger, Glenk, and Jang, 2021, Animals, 11 (2057): 1–37, provided (as Pelophylax chosenicus) locality records, a distribution map as well as modeled distribution, life history comments, and conservation status for P.D.R. Korea. Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 727, placed Pelophylax chosenicus into the synonymy of Pelophylax plancyi on the basis of low genetic distances.  Zhou, Zhang, Wang, Miao, Xu, Guan, and Shi, 2022, Chinese J. Zool., 57: 440–446, provided a genetically confirmed record of nominal Pelophylax chosenicus from Shenyang, Liaoning, northeastern China. Andersen, Chuang, Choe, Kim, Kwon, Jang, and Borzée, 2022, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 61(25): 1–10, reported on the elevational range (0–494 m) in Rep. Korea. Zhou, Zhang, Hu, Xia, Miao, Guan, and Shi, 2023, Herpetozoa, Wien, 36: 143–152, discussed the evidence for and the validity of Pelophylax chosenicus, and placed it into the synonymy of Pelophylax plancyi. Borzée, 2024, Continental NE Asian Amph.: 118–127, provided detailed account (as Pelophylax chosenicus and Pelophylax plancyi: distribution including a polygon map, habitat, ecology, conservation, photos of larvae and adults, identification tools) for northeastern Asia.  As evidence by the mtDNA tree (their fig. 5), the last word on the taxonomy and distribution of the elements of the Pelophylax nigromaculatus/chosencus/plancyi complex has yet to be made. 

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