Nanorana taihangnica (Chen and Jiang, 2002)
Paa (Feirana) taihangnicus Chen and Jiang, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 231. Holotype: HENNU 020701005, by original designation. Type locality: "Jiyuan City, Henan Province, altitude 812 m", China.
Paa (Feirana) taihangnica — Dubois, Crombie, and Glaw, 2005, Alytes, 23: 42. Gender correction.
Nanorana taihangnica — 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) taihangnica — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.
Feirana taihangnica — Wang, Jiang, Xie, Chen, Dubois, Liang, and Wagner, 2009, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 26: 506. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 26. See comment under Dicroglossidae. See comment under Dicroglossidae.
Nanorana (Chaparana) taihangnica — Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2.
English Names
Taihangshan Swelled-vented Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 384).
Distribution
High-gradient streams in the Qinling, Funiu and the Zhongtia, and southern Taihang mountains in the provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Henan, China.
Comment
Most similar to Nanorana quadranus (as Paa) according to the original publication. See Chen and Jiang, 2004, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 29: 595-599, for supplementary description. Wang, Jiang, Xie, Chen, Dubois, Liang, and Wagner, 2009, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 26: 500-509, reported on aspects of phylogenetic relationships and range of this species. See comment under Nanorana for comments on the status of Feirana. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1437-1442, provided an accounts (as Feirana taihangnica), figures, and map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 384-385, provided a brief account (as Feirana taihangnica) including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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