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Sylvirana spinulosa (Smith, 1923)
Rana (Hylarana) spinulosa Smith, 1923, J. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 6: 207. Holotype: BMNH (formerly M. Smith 6889). Type locality: "Tun-fao, Kachek river [= Jiaji He], altitude 200 metres", Hainan I., China.
Hylarana spinulosa — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 98; Song, Jang, Zou, and Shi, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 71; Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237, by implication; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 423.
Hylarana (Hylarana) spinulosa — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 140; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 176.
Rana (Sylvirana) spinulosa — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.
Sylvirana spinulosa — 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; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34; Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 191.
Hylarana (Sylvirana) spinulosa — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1143.
English Names
Spiny Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).
Fine-spined Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 176).
Distribution
Southern and southwestern Hainan Island, China, 80–840 m elevation. See comment.
Comment
Prior to the revision of 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, placed in the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Sylvirana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. See Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 320–321; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 190–191; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 176–177. In the Hylarana (Hylarana) latouchii group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 117. Yang and Zhao, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 309–311, provided a specific location and habitat. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana spinulosa) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 512. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1143–1148, provided an account, figures, and map for China and placed it in their Hylarana (Sylvirana) latouchii group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 319, provided a brief account including photographs. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 116–119, provided an account as Rana spinulosa. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 359, provided an account (as Sylvirana spinulosa), photographs, and a range map. Gawor, Pham, Nguyen, Nguyen, Schmitz, and Ziegler, 2016, Salamandra, 52: 28–29, reported on an apparently unnamed "Hylarana sp." from Quang Ninh Province, in northeastern Vietnam that resembled this species.
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