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Rana sauteri Boulenger, 1909
Rana sauteri Boulenger, 1909, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 4: 493. Syntypes: BMNH (5 specimens), by original designation, these being BMNH 1947.2.1.24–28 (formerly 1909.10.29.42–46) by museum records. Type locality: "Kanshirei Village, altitude about 2000 feet ", Taiwan, China.
Rana (Hylorana) sauteri — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 124.
Rana (Hylarana) sauteri — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.
Pseudorana sauteri sauteri — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 138; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 233.
Rana (Pseudorana) sauteri — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333.
Amolops (Pseudoamolops) sauteri — Jiang, Fei, Ye, Zeng, Zhen, Xie, and Chen, 1997, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 6–7: 74.
Rana multidenticulata Chou and Lin, 1997, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 36: 222–229. Holotype: NMNS 2802, by original designation. Type locality: "Dayuling, Taichung Co[unty]., Taiwan (2560 m, 24 11 02 N, 121 18 17 E)". Synonymy by Hsu, Lin, Wu, and Tsai, 2011, Herpetol. J., 21: 169.
Rana multidentata — Glaw, Köhler, Lötters, and Vences, 1998, Elaphe, 6: xxii. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Pseudoamolops sauteri — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zool. Sinica, 46: 23, 25.
Pseudoamolops multidenticulatus — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zool. Sinica, 46: 23, 25.
Rana multidenticulata — 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: 370.
Rana sauteri — 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: 370; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13.
Rana (Rana) sauteri — Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.
Common Names
Kanshirei Village Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).
Taiwan Groove-toed Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 170).
Sauter's Brown Frog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 84).
Taiwan Pseudotorrent Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 393).
Multidenticulate Pseudotorrent Frog (Rana multidentata [no longer recognized]: Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 392).
Sauter's Frog (Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 98).
Distribution
Mountains and hills of Taiwan, 170–2500 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Taiwan
Endemic: Taiwan
Comment
Chou and Lin, 1997, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 36: 222–229, reported on external adult and larval morphology and advertisement call, as Rana multidenticulata. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 402–403, provided accounts (as Pseudoamolops sauteri: 402–403; and Pseudoamolops multidenticulatus: 404), photographs, and range maps. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 98–99, provided a brief account, photographs, and map.
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