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Rana culaiensis Li, Lu, and Li, 2008

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

Rana culaiensis Li, Lu, and Li, 2008, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 11: 63. Holotype: YT 050526007, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Culai (117° 18′ E, 36° 02′ N), Taian City, Shandong province, China . . ., at 900 m elevation".

Rana (Rana) culaiensis — Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.

Rana qianjiang Gao, Luo, and Luo in Luo, Liu, Gao, Luo, Huang, Xiao, Wang, Zhou, Luo, and Tang, 2012, J. SW China Normal Univ. (Nat. Sci. Ed.), 37(4): 136. Holotype: Zoological Institute of Qinghua Middle School (CTF) 20080429004, by original designation. Type locality (translated from the Chinese): a paddy field on 1# Village Group, Chayuan Village, Shuishi Township, Qianjiang District, Chongqing Municipality (29°15′Ｎ, 108°41′Ｅ); altitude 1000 m, China. Synonymy by Ma and Wang, 2026 "2025", Amph. Fauna Chongqing: 235. See comment.

Common Names

Culai Brown Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 306).

徂徕林蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 8).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Mount Culai, Taian City, Shandong Province, China, 900 m elevation) as well as populations assigned to this species in Chongqing and east-central Guizhou (Zhujiashan Nature Reserve, Huangpin) east to Tieshan Temple National Forest Park (Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province), China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

In the Rana longicrus group according to the original publication. See comments by Yan, Jiang, Chen, Fang, Jin, Li, Wang, Murphy, Che, and Zhang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 67. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 306, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. See Rana qianjiang for comments on taxonomic uncertainty of the populations in Guizhou and Chongqing. Xiao, Luo, Luo, Wei, and Zeng, 2019, Sichuan J. Zool., 38: 616–622, provided the record from Zhujiashan Nature Reserve, Huangping County, Guizhou Province, China. Ma, Ye, Gao, and Bao, 2024, Sichuan J. Zool., 43: 524–535, reported genetically confirmed records and a range extension to Tieshan Temple National Forest Park (Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, China), and provided a mtDNA (cytb) tree of this species and relatives as well as a dot map of the distribution. Rana qianjiang was not formally addressed in the analysis of Xiao, Luo, Luo, Wei, and Zeng, 2019, Sichuan J. Zool., 38: 616–622, but appear to include topotypes in their analysis as Rana culaiensis; the synonymy was formally made by Ma and Wang, 2026 "2025", Amph. Fauna Chongqing: 235.

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