Odorrana Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Odorrana

Odorrana Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 147. Type species: Rana margaretae Liu, 1950, by original designation. Considered a subgenus of Rana by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329; Matsui, 1994, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 111: 385-415.

Eburana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328. Type species: Rana narina Stejneger, 1901, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Rana. Synonymy with Odorrana by Matsui, 1994, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 111: 385-415; Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 6.

Bamburana Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 124. Type species: Rana versabilis Liu and Hu, 1962, by original designation. Named as a subgenus of Odorrana.

Wurana Li, Lu, and Lü, 2006, Sichuan J. Zool., 25: 206, 209. Type species: Rana tormotus Wu, 1977, by original designation. Synonymy by Cai, Che, Pang, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Zootaxa, 1531: 49.

Bamburana — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 21. Treatment as a genus.

Matsuirana Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 21. Type species: Rana ishikawae Stejneger, 1901. See comment under Ranidae record for this provisional placement.

Incertae Sedis

Polypedates smaragdinus Blyth, 1852, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 21: 355. Types: Not stated, but likely originally in ZSIC, but not there now according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 118. Type locality: "Naga hills, Asám". Considered a possible senior synonym of Rana livida by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 69; Boulenger, 1890, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. Batr.: 462; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 214; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 371. Considered a nomen dubium, likely within the Rana livida group, by Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 3, who discussed the history of this name.

Rana nebulosa Hallowell, 1861 "1860", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12: 505. Holotype: Not stated; presumably originally USNM or ANSP but not mentioned in subsequent type lists and must be presumed lost. Type locality: "Hong Kong, China". Considered a nomen dubium by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 7. Provisional synonym with Rana livida by Dubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 35.Considered a nomen dubium by Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 4, who discussed the history of the name.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

High-gradient streams of Japan, southern China and Indochina west to northeastern India, Myanmar and Thailand and south to through Malaya and Sumatra to Borneo.

Comment

The diagnosis of Eburana as compared to Odorrana was disputed by Matsui, 1994, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 111: 385-415, who noted that the only diagnostic feature of this taxon, unpigmented animal pole of the eggs, was also shared with Odorrana and Chalcorana. 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: 253, suggested that Huia (sensu stricto) is imbedded within a paraphyletic cluster of Odorrana and Eburana, and placed all three in synonymy to resolve the nonmonophyly. These authors did not examine the type species of Huia, Rana cavitympanum and explained that should it not fall into this group the oldest name would become Odorrana; subsequently Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, in their extensive phylogenetic study, showed that the the Frost et al. (2006) exemplar of Huia, Huia nasica, is not close to Rana cavitympanum and they resurrected the name Odorrana for this group. Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528-534, reported on phylogenetics of Odorrana in China. Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 1-60, reviewed the members of the loosely delimited Rana livida group from Southeast Asia. Cai, Che, Pang, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Zootaxa, 1531: 49-55, reported on phylogenetics of within Odorrana and its placement within Ranidae. Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 49-60, also reported on the phylogenetics of Odorrana and recognized it as a strongly supported monophyletic group. See comment under Rana cangyuanensis. Results presented by Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217-1231, corroborate the monophyly of this taxon. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1198-1302, provided identification keys and species accounts for China. Kurabayashi, Yoshikawa, Sato, Hayashi, Oumi, Fujii, and Sumida, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 543-553, noted a DNA translocation that may be a synapomorphy for Odorrana. Orlov, 2009 "2007", Uspekhi Sovrem. Biol., 127: 612-621, noted that a large number of species remained unnamed in Vietnam alone. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences confirmed the monophyly of this taxon (although this is difficult to appreciate due to the adoption of an antiquated an nonmonophyletic taxonomy) and provided a tree of exemplars.

Contained taxa

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