Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana ercepeae Dubois, 1974 "1973", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 98: 496. Holotype: MNHNP 1974.1091, by original designation. Type locality: "torrent Jiuli Gad, près du village de Takundara, Nord-Ouest de Chainpur, Ouest-Népal (29° 40′ N, 81° 06′ E; altitude 2280 m). "

Rana (Paa) ercepeae — Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1097. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.

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

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

Paa ercepeae — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 26.

English Names

Torrent Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).

R.C.P.'s Paa Frog (Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 79).

Distribution

Low montane regions, around 3000 m in elevation, western Nepal, 2200-2600 m elevation.

Comment

Closely related to Nanorana rostandi (as Rana), according to the original publication. See account by Dubois, 1976, Cah. Nepal., Doc., 6: 179-189. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 268-270, provided an account for the Nepal population. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Paa ercepeae) 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. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 63, for brief account.

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