Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana (Paa) arnoldi Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1093. Holotype: BMNH 1940.6.2.90, by original designation. Type locality: "Pangnamdim, Nam Tamai Valley, Triangle, nord de la Birmani, 27° 42′ N, 97° 54′ E, altitude environ 910 m (3000 ft.)".

Rana (Paa) arnoldi — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.

Paa (Paa) arnoldi — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320.

Nanorana arnoldi — 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) arnoldi — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.

Maculopaa arnoldi — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 26. See comment under Dicroglossidae.

English Names

Arnold's Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 30).

Distribution

Low mountain region of eastern Nepal, adjacent northeastern India (Darjeeling region, West Bengal; Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh); Xizang and northwestern Yunnan (China) and northern Myanmar, 910-2080 m elevation.

Comment

See Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43, and Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 142-147. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 118-120, provided an account. See comment under Paa maculosa. See also brief account (as Rana arnoldi) by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 83-84. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 265-268, provided an account for the Nepal population. Li, Lu, Li, Zhao, Hou, and Zhang, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 248, provided additional localities in Xizang. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 82-83, provided a brief account (as Paa arnoldi) for Yunnan, China. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Paa annandalii) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 630. 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.

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