Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Nanorana ventripunctata Fei and Huang, 1985, Acta Biol. Plateau Sinica, 4: 71, 75. Holotype: CIB 82I2060, by original designation. Type locality: "Zhongdian [County], Yunnan, altitude 3150 m", China.

Nanorana (Nanorana) ventripunctata — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 322. Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.

Nanorana ventripunctata — Lu and Yang, 1995, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 6: 69-72. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 26.

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

English Names

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

Spot-bellied Plateau Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 228).

Distribution

Northwestern Yunnan (Zhongdian, Deqin), China, 3120-4100 m elevation.

Comment

Similar to Nanorana pleskei according to the original publication. See accounts by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 163-165; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 297; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 228. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 105-106. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 88-89, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Chen, Liu, Jiang, Xie, and Zheng, 2005, Herpetol. Sinica, 10: 47-51, discussed the species' distinctiveness and provided a map. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1469-1473, provided an account for China, figures, and map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 390, provided a brief account including photographs.

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