Nanorana parkeri (Stejneger, 1927)
Altirana parkeri Stejneger, 1927, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 17: 318. Holotype: USNM 72328, by original designation. Type locality: "Tingri, [north of Mount Everest,] Tibet, at 15,000 feet altitude", Xizang, China.
Rana (Altirana) parkeri — Dubois, 1974, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 213: 377.
Nanorana (Altirana) parkeri — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 322. Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.
Nanorana parkeri — Lu and Yang, 1995, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 6: 69-72. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 25.
Nanorana (Nanorana) parkeri — Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2.
English Names
High Himalaya Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97; Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 79; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 46).
Xizang Plateau Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 226).
Parker's Slow Frog (Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 87; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 46).
Mountain Slow Frog (Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 87; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 46).
Distribution
Southern third of Xizang (China) and high elevations of north-central Nepal; expected in Himalayan Bhutan, northeastern Kashmir, and India (Sikkim).
Comment
See accounts (as Altirana parkeri) by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 329-330; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 217-220; and Dubois, 1974, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 213: 377. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 299; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 226-227. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 103-104. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 257-259, provided an account for the Nepal population. See brief account (as Rana parkeri) by Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 87. Li, Lu, Li, Zhao, Hou, and Zhang, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 248, provided additional localities in Xizang. Chen, Liu, Jiang, Xie, and Zheng, 2005, Herpetol. Sinica, 10: 47-51, discussed the distinctiveness of this species and provided a map (mislabeled in map as Nanorana pleskei). Pisanets and Pisanets, 2007, Rep. Zool. Mus., Kiev, 39: 57-62, reported on karyotypic variation. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1457-1463, provided an account for China, figures, and map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 388, provided a brief account including photographs. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 46-47, provided an account for Xizang, China. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 60, for brief account.
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