Nanorana annandalii (Boulenger, 1920)
Rana annandalii Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 77. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens, including 1947.2.1.93, which were originally ZSIC 18929 and 18931) and and ZSIC 18571 and 18573 according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 108; BMNH 1947.2.1.93 designated lectotype by Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1110. Type locality: "Sureil, Darjeeling district, 5500 ft., Suchal [= Senchal] Waterworks, near Ghoom, in the same district, . . . [and] Pashok, alt. 4500 ft.", India; restricted to Suchal waterworks near Ghoom, Darjeeling, India, by lectotype designation.
Rana (Rana) annandalii — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 8.
Rana (Paa) annandalii — Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1099. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.
Paa (Paa) annandalii — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320.
Nanorana annandalii — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239. by implication; 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: 367.
Chaparana (Paa) annandalii — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.
Paa annandalii — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 26.
English Names
Annandale's Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102; Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 79).
Annandale's Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 41).
Boulenger's Hill Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 85; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 29).
Distribution
Moderate and high elevations of eastern Nepal into adjacent northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal; see comment).
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Paa blanfordii by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320, where it had been placed by Dubois, 1979, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 48: 657-661. See account (as Rana annandalii) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 76. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 85, provided a brief account as Rana annandalii. Literature of Nanorana annandalii from India may apply more correctly to Nanorana gammii according to XXX. Bordoloi, Borah, Chakravorty, and Sinha, 2001, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 80: 1219-1222, provided new records for India and an account. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 261-264, provided an account for the Nepal population. Sarkar, Biswas, and Ray, 1992, State Fauna Ser., 3: 82-83, provided a brief account for West Bengal, India. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 149-150, provided range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 41-42, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Not addressed, and therefore not assigned to subgenus by Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107: 13765-13770, and Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 61, for brief account.
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