Nanorana chayuensis (Ye, 1977)
Rana maculosa chayuensis Ye In Sichuan Institute of Biology Herpetology Department, 1977, Acta Zool. Sinica, 23: 58, 62. Holotype: CIB 73I9524, by original designation. Type locality: "Chayü, Xizang [= Tibet], alt. 1540 m", China.
Paa (Paa) chayuensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 157. Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 277.
Nanorana chayuensis — 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) chayuensis — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.
Nanorana (Paa) chayuensis — Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2.
Maculopaa chayuensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 26. See comment under Dicroglossidae.
English Names
Chayu Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 40).
Chayu Spiny Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 212; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 31).
Distribution
Extreme southeastern Xizang and adjacent northwestern Yunnan, China); also reported from Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India; to be expected in intervening northern Myanmar.
Comment
Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 142-147, placed Rana maculosa chayuensis Ye, 1977 (of southern Xizang, China), into the synonymy of Rana arnoldi (= Nanorana arnoldi of this catalog). This synonymy was rejected by Hu in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 503, who noted that Dubois had not examined specimens of Rana maculosa chayuensis. Separate species status for Rana chayuensis was accepted subsequently by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320, although the synonymy was accepted, without comment, by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 138. See account by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 277; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 212-213. Fei and Ye, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 226-230, compared this species with Paa medogensis and Paa arnoldi and considered it to be distinct. Deuti and Ayyaswamy, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 234, provided a record for Neora Valley National Park, Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India, 1850 m elevation. Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 630, implied that this may be a junior synonym of Nanorana annandalii. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1401-1406, provided an account (as Paa chayuensis) for China, figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa maculosa group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 363-364, provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 362-363, provided a brief account (as Paa chayuensis) for China. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 40-41, provided an account (as Paa chayuensis) for Xizang, China.
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