Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
Printable HELP file

Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
Printable HELP file

Zhangixalus omeimontis (Stejneger, 1924)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Zhangixalus > Species: Zhangixalus omeimontis

Polypedates omeimontis Stejneger, 1924, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 119. Holotype: USNM 66548, by original designation. Type locality: "Shin-kai-si, Mount Omei, Szechwan [=Sichuan] Province, China".

Rhacophorus schlegelii omeimontis — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 195.

Rhacophorus omeimontis — Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 379; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 65.

Polypedates omeimontis — Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 98; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 185.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) omeimontis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

Rhacophorus omeimontis — Rao, Wilkinson, and Liu, 2006, Zootaxa, 1258: 17, by implication.

Zhangixalus omeimontis — Jiang, Jiang, Ren, Wu, and Li, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 7.

English Names

Omei Whipping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113).

Omei Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 280).

Distribution

Sichuan and southeastern Yunnan eastward to Hubei and Guangxi, China, 700-200 m elevation, in isolated populations.

Comment

In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) dugritei group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group. See accounts by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 379-388; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 262-264; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 331; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 280-281. Li and Hu, 1996, Zool. Res., Kunming, 17: 483–488, reported on karyology. The record for Rhacophorus omeimontis from Vietnam by Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 29-32, was subsequently noted to be based on misidentified Rhacophorus duboisi by Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 81-104. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 212-213, provided a brief account and illustration (as Rhacophorus omeimontis). Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 130-131, provided an account for Guangxi. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 127-128. Orlov, Nguyen, and Ho, 2008, Russ. J. Herpetol., 15: 67-84, provided a photograph and a key to differentiate this species from Vietnam and therefore implied its presence in Vietnam although they provided no specific localities and had in previous publication treated records of Rhacophorus omeimontis to apply to misidentified Rhacophorus duboisi. Rhacophorus pianbingensis was most closely related to Polypedates omeimontis according to the original publication. Considered a synonym of Polypedates duboisi; without discussion, by Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 95. Yu, Rao, Yang, and Zhang, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 153: 733-749, suggested tentatively that Rhacophorus pingbianensis is distinct and the sister taxon of Rhacophorus omeimontis. Yu, Rao, Zhang, and Yang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 571-579, found in a molecular analysis that the species was not monophyletic, with the Jinping County population being more closely related to Rhacophorus omeimontis. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 812, placed Rhacophorus pingbianensis in the synonymy of Rhacophorus omeimontis and placed the species in the Rhacophorus omeimontis group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 470-471, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 554-555, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 321–324, provided an account for Hunan, China. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 168–170, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China.

External links:

Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.

For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
For images search CalPhoto Images and Google Images
To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
For additional information see AmphibiaWeb report
For information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist
For additional information specific to China see Amphibia China
For access to available specimen data for this species, from over 350 scientific collections, go to Vertnet.