Theloderma baibungense (Jiang, Fei, and Huang, 2009)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Theloderma > Species: Theloderma baibungense

Aquixalus baibungensis Jiang, Fei, and Huang In Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 710. Holotype: CIB 20030147, by original designation. Type locality: "Baibung of Medog Co. (29.11° N, 95.10° E. ), Xizang, China, 850 m". Gender disagreement. 

Theloderma baibengensis — Frost, 2010, Amph. Spec. World, vers. 5.4. Provisional placement based on statement of relationship to Philautus albopunctatus. Incorrect subsequent spelling of species name. 

Aquixalus baibungensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 426. 

Theloderma (Theloderma) baibengense — Poyarkov, Orlov, Moiseeva, Pawangkhanant, Ruangsuwan, Vassilieva, Galoyan, Nguyen, and Gogoleva, 2015, Russ. J. Herpetol., 22: 276. Gender correction; incorrect subsequent spelling. 

Theloderma baibungense — Hou, Yu, Chen, Liao, Zhang, Chen, Li, and Orlov, 2017, Russ. J. Herpetol., 24: 116. 

Common Names

Baibung Small Treefrog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 426).

背崩棱皮树蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 12). 

Baibung Warty Tree Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Beibung, Medog County, Xizang, China);to Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, and Nagaland (northeastern India), as well as Lawachara National Park, Sylhet Division, northeastern Bangladesh. Likely to extend into Chin state, western Myanmar. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, China, People's Republic of, India

Comment

The placement in Theloderma is provisional, based on the inclusion by Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 712, Theloderma within Aquixalus, and that statement that Aquixalus beibengensis is close to Aquixalus albopunctatus (now a synonym of Theloderma asperum). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 425-383, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus baibungensis) including photographs of specimens. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 504, provided an account (as Aquixalus baibungensis), photographs, and a range map for China. In the subgenus Theloderma, Theloderma asperum species group of Poyarkov, Orlov, Moiseeva, Pawangkhanant, Ruangsuwan, Vassilieva, Galoyan, Nguyen, and Gogoleva, 2015, Russ. J. Herpetol., 22: 276. Hou, Yu, Chen, Liao, Zhang, Chen, Li, and Orlov, 2017, Russ. J. Herpetol., 24: 117, noted that earlier records of Theloderma asperum from northeastern India are referable to Theloderma baibungense. 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. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 395–398, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. Biakzuala, Muansanga, Decemson, Hmar, Malsawmdawngliana, Mathipi, and Lalremsanga, 2022, Reptiles & Amphibians, 29: 66–70, discussed systemaatics, the range, and provided a new, genetically confirmed, record from Mizoram, northeastern India. 

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