Rana chaochiaoensis Liu, 1946

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Rana > Species: Rana chaochiaoensis

Rana chaochiaoensis Liu, 1946, J. West China Border Res. Soc., Ser. B, 16: 7. Holotype: CIB 609, by original designation. Type locality: "Chao-chiao-city, Ningshu, Sikang [= Zhaojue, Sichuan] province, China, 7200 ft. altitude". Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 972, confusingly suggested CIB 641 is a lectotype; presumably this was intended as allotype.

Rana japonica chaochiaoensis — Liu and Hu, 1960 "1959", Acta Zool. Sinica, 11: 509–533; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 180–181.

Rana chaochiaoensis — Inger, Zhao, Shaffer, and Wu, 1990, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 58: 10.

Rana (Rana) chaochiaoensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333; Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.

Rana (Laurasiarana) chaochiaoensis — Hillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 311, by implication; see Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 317–330, and Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 331–338, for discussion.

English Names

Chaochiao Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Chaochiao Brown Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 150).

Distribution

Mountains of Yunnan, southern Sichuan, and western Guizhou, China; isolated record in northeastern  Guangxi; expected in adjacent northwestern Vietnam.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Likely/Controversially Present: Vietnam

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Provisionally considered a member of the Rana temporaria group by Mensi, Lattes, Macario, Salvidio, Giacoma, and Balletto, 1992, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 105: 293–311, although they suggested it may be closer to Rana arvalis. Resurrected from the synonymy of Rana japonica by Inger, Zhao, Shaffer, and Wu, 1990, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 58: 10, where it had been placed by Liu and Hu, 1960 "1959", Acta Zool. Sinica, 11: 509–533; and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 180–181. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 150–151, provided a brief account, map, and figure. China: 143. Zhao, Tan, and Wu, 1987, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 12: 213–218, suggested on the basis of karyological differences that Rana japonica and Rana chaochiaoensis were distinct species. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 127–129, provided an account. See comment under Rana japonica. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 166, provided a brief account and illustration. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 78, provided an account (as Rana japonica) for Guangxi. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 85–86. Regarded as close to Rana omeimontis and in the Rana japonica group by Xie, Fei, and Ye, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 74–80. In the Rana longicrus group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 105. Li, Lu, and Li, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 268–270, provided a distribution map for China. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 66–67, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 972–977, provided an account for China and included it in their Rana longicrus group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 264–265, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Yan, Jiang, Chen, Fang, Jin, Li, Wang, Murphy, Che, and Zhang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 67, suggested that this species is diagnosable on the basis of mtDNA evidence. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 298–299, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. 

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