Chirixalus doriae Boulenger, 1893

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Chirixalus > Species: Chirixalus doriae

Chirixalus doriae Boulenger, 1893, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 13: 341. Syntypes: Original 6 specimens according to Hallermann, 2006, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 103: 139, including MSNG, NHMW 16556 (according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 15, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 19), and BMNH 1947.2.8.11–13 (formerly 1893.10.9.32–34, according to museum records); MSNG 29426A designated lectotype by Capocaccia, 1957, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 69: 217; lectotype now lost according to Hallermann, 2006, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 103: 139. Type locality: "District of the Karin Bia-po" (5 specimens) and "Thao" (1 specimen), Myanmar; data associated with NHMW syntype is "Karin-Gebirge, Burma" Myanmar; restricted to Karin Bia-po by lectotype designation. Hallermann, 2006, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 103: 139, doubted that status of the NHMW specimen and suggested that ZMH A03145 is a syntype.

Philautus doriae — Cochran, 1927, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 40: 179, by implication; Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 582; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 279; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 65.

Rhacophorus (Chirixalus) doriae — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 56, 105.

Chirixalus doriae — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 476; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 181; Chen, Prendini, Wu, Zhang, Suwannapoom, Chen, Jin, Lemmon, Lemmon, Stuart, Raxworthy, Murphy, Yuan, and Che, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 145 (106724): 5. 

Chiromantis doriae — 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: 367.

Common Names

Doria's Asian Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Doria's Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 89).

Doria's Bush Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 153; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 88).

Doria's Bushfrog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 144; Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 40).

Stripe Pigmy Tree Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 155; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Dorsal-striped Opposite-fingered Treefrog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 440).

Dorsal-striped Bushfrog (Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 59). 

Doria's Foam-nest Treefrog (Nguyen, Brakels, Maury, Sudavanh, Pawangkhanant, Idiiatullina, Lorphengsy, Inkhavilay, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2020, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 14 (2: e248): 226).

Distribution

Extreme northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram), adjacent northeastern Bangladesh and through northern Myanmar (Bago, Kachin, Kayah, Sagaing, and Yangon), central and western Thailand south to Prachuap Khiri Khan Province in the northern part of the peninsula, Laos, southwestern Cambodia, and central and northern Vietnam to Yunnan, Guangdong, and Hainan I., China; reported from South Tanintharyi, peninsular Myanmar. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, People's Republic of, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Comment

See account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 476–477. See also Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 279–281 (as Philautus doriae), and Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 537–539 (as Philautus doriae). Heyer, 1971, Fieldiana, Zool., 58: 83–91, described the tadpole from Thailand, noting that the Chinese tadpole pictured under the name Chirixalus doriae by Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 582, is actually Rohanixalus vittatus. See Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 23, for Vietnam record. Tan, 1987, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 1: 12–16, provided evidence from karyology that suggests that at least two species masquerade under this name. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 262–264, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 19, listed this species as part of the Vietnam fauna. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 153–154, provided a brief account. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 91, provided a statement of range. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 120–121. Reported for southwestern Cambodia by Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 465–481. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 155, provided a brief characterization (as Philautus doriae) and photograph, which Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 101, attributed to Philautus sp. Tan, 1987, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 1: 12–16, reported on striking karyotype variation within the nominal species. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 144–145, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Teynié, David, Ohler, and Luanglath, 2004, Hamadryad, 29: 35, provided a record and comments for Laos and Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 478, provided additional records for Laos. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 71, provided relevant literature and noted that the species has not been recollected in India since 1912. Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 308, provided a brief account (as Philautus doriae) for Arunachal Pradesh. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 106, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 102, provided a photograph, brief account of identification, ecology, and range in Cambodia. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 730–733, provided an account (as Chirixalus doriae) and a spot map for China. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 88–89, provided a brief characterization and a photograph. Hasan, Mahony, and Kabir, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 103, provided a record for Bangladesh. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 440–441, provided a brief account (as Chirixalus doriae) for China including photographs of specimens and habitat. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 78–79, provided an account for Hainan. Chan and Yang, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 384, provided a record for Guangdong, China. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 137, detailed the range in Thailand. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 516–517, provided an account (as Chirixalus doriae), photographs, and a range map for China. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 388–389, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 59–60, provided a brief account for South Tanintharyi, peninsular Myanmar. Nguyen, Brakels, Maury, Sudavanh, Pawangkhanant, Idiiatullina, Lorphengsy, Inkhavilay, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2020, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 14 (2: e248): 218–249, who discussed the range and provided records from Vientiae, Savannakhet, and Oudomxai Provinces, Laos. See comments by Hakim, Trageser, Ghose, Das, Rashid, and Rahman, 2020, Check List, 16: 1239–1268, who reported the species from Lawachara National Park, Sylhet Division, northeastern Bangladesh. Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 154–155, provided photographs, a brief account for Thailand, and a range map. Deng, Yang, and Cui, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 110–116, reported on geographic patterns in advertisement call. Muansanga, Duhzuali, Biakzuala, Mathipi, Sailo, and Lalremsanga, 2021, Reptiles & Amphibians, 28: 79–81, reported the species from Pualreng Wildlife Sanctuary, Mizoram, India , elevation 662 m, and provided a dot map of the known records. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 40, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. Reported from Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam, by Pham, Nguyen, Pham, Sung, Le, Vaxong, and Ziegler, 2022, Herpetol. Notes, 15: 169–178, who also provided descriptive notes on the new specimens. 

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