Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana maculosa Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1960, Acta Zool. Sinica, 12: 161, 173. Holotype: CIB 581250, by original designation. Type locality: "Hsin-ming-hsiang [= Xinmin Xiang], Ching-tung [=Jingdong County], Yunnan, 2100 m altitude", China.

Rana (Paa) maculosa — Dubois and Matsui, 1983, Copeia, 1983: 900. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.

Paa (Paa) maculosa — 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: 279.

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

Nanorana (Paa) maculosa — Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2.

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

English Names

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

Piebald Spiny Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 214).

Distribution

Central Yunnan (Jingdong and Shuangbai counties), China, 1800-2600 m elevation.

Comment

See account by Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 142-147. See accounts by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 135-137, Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 279; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 214-215. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 85, provided a brief account (as Paa maculosa) for Yunnan, China. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Paa maculosa) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 491. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1406-1410, provided an account (as Paa maculosa), figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa maculosa group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 370, provided a brief account (as Paa maculosa) including photographs.

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