Rana kukunoris Nikolskii, 1918

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Rana > Species: Rana kukunoris

Rana amurensis kukunoris Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 82. Syntypes: ZISP 1500 (3 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: Lake Kukunor [= Qinghai Lake], Qinghai Province, China.

Rana weigoldi Vogt, 1924, Zool. Anz., 60: 339. Syntypes: ZMB (4 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Ngo-la [= Ngolo Pass] 4000 m hoher Pass in Derge, Grenzlandschaft im südlichen Osttibet [actually Sichuan] bei Kansego", China. Synonymy with Rana chensinensis by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 280-281; with Rana kukunoris by Xie, Ye, Fei, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 25: 228-235.

Rana amurensis kokonorisLiu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 183. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Rana chensinensis hongyuanensis Hu, Jiang, and Zhao, 1985, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 4 (3): 228. Types: Not stated, presumably CIB. Type locality: "Mt. Hengduan, 3000-3800 [m elevation]", Sichuan Province, China, 3000-3800 meters. Nomen nudum. Synonymy by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 141; with Rana kukunoris by Xie, Ye, Fei, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 25: 228-235.

Rana chensinensis lanzhouensis Wei and Chen, 1990, Acta Zool. Sinica, 36: 78. Types: Not stated, but NWUX 860130, according to Wei, Chen, Xu, and Li, 1991, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 16: 381. Type locality: Yuzhong, Sichuan Province, China, 1500 m. Redescribed as new by Wei, Chen, Xu, and Li, 1991, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 16: 381. Synonymy with Rana kukunoris by Xie, Ye, Fei, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 25: 228-235.

Rana chensinensis kangdingensis Wei and Chen, 1990, Acta Zool. Sinica, 36: 78. Types: Not stated, but NWUX 860069, according to Wei, Chen, Xu, and Li, 1991, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 16: 382. Type locality: Kangding, Sichuan Province, China, 3300 m elevation. Redescribed as new by Wei, Chen, Xu, and Li, 1991, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 16: 378. Synonymy with Rana kukunoris by Xie, Ye, Fei, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 25: 228-235.

Rana (Rana) kukunoris — Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.

English Names

Plateau Brown Frog (Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 172; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 34).

Plateau Wood Frog (Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 34).

Distribution

Plateau region of western China (northwestern Sichuan, eastern Qinghai, Gansu, and very eastern Tibet).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Rana chensinensis by Xie, Ye, Fei, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 25: 228–235, where it had been placed by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 141. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 172–173, provided a brief account and illustration. In the Rana chensinensis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 107. Li, Lu, and Li, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 268–270, provided a distribution map for China. Che, Pang, Zhao, Matsui, and Zhang, 2007, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 24: 71–80, discussed that status of this taxon. Li, Lu, Wang, Wang, Fang, and Li, 2005, Herpetol. Sinica, 10: 63–67, compared this species in China with Rana zhenhaiensis, Rana chensinensis, Rana dybowskii, Rana amurensis, and Rana huanrenensis. Zhao, Dai, and Fu, 2009, J. Zool., London, 279: 270–276, reported on landscape genetics in the Hengduan Mountains of Sichuan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1019–1025, provided an account for China and included it in their Rana asiatica group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 274–275, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 34–35, provided an account for Xizang, China. Zhou, Wen, Fu, Xu, Jin, Ding, Min, Che, and Zhang, 2012, Mol. Ecol., 21: 960–973, reported on the phylogenetics and biogeography of this species as part of a larger study of the Rana chensinensis complex. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 310–311, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Feng, Chen, Hu, and Jiang, 2015, Asian Herpetol. Res., 6: 291–297, reported on morphological variation and sexual dimorphism. Wang, Li, Gao, Liu, and Teng, 2020, MtDNA, Part B, 5: 586–587, reported on the complete mitochondrial genome. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 245–249, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China.  

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