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Rhacophorus translineatus Wu, 1977
Rhacophorus translineatus Wu In Sichuan Institute of Biology Herpetology Department, 1977, Acta Zool. Sinica, 23: 59, 63. Holotype: CIB 73II0031, by original designation. Type locality: "Medo [= Medog County], Xizang [= Tibet], alt. 1500 m", China; given as "Motuo, Xizang (= Tibet), China" by Li, Chen, Li, Lv, and Wang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 131.
Rhacophorus (Leptomantis) translineatus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 76.
Huangixalus translineatus — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 598. See comment in synonymy of Rhacophorus.
Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) translineatus — Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication.
Common Names
Medog Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 64).
Cross-barred Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 270; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 120).
Translneate Tree Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 117; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15).
Distribution
Known from the type locality in Medog County, eastern Tibet, China, as well as in Chhukha District, southwestern Bhutan, and Dihang-Dibang Biosphere Reserve, Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, and Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Bhutan, China, People's Republic of, India
Comment
Not assigned to subgenus by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 270-272, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Bordoloi, Borah, Sarmah, and Sharma, 2002, Himalayan Biosph. Reserves, 4: 33-38, provided records for Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 782-786, provided an account and a spot map for China and assigned this species to their Rhacophorus verrucopus group. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 117-118, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 475, provided a brief account for China including photographs. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 64-65, provided an account for Tibet, China. Li, Chen, Li, Lv, and Wang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 134, provided photographs of the holotype. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 522–523, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 378–385, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. Lhendup and Koirala, 2021, J. Threatened Taxa, 13: 20078–20083, provided the first record from Bhutan, from Chhukha District. Ahmed, Roy, Begum, Vasudevan, Nishikawa, Asrafuzzaman, and Dutta, 2024, Herpetol. Notes, 17: 329–337, described tadpole morphology, provided a new locality in the Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India, and summarized the known distribution.
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