Quasipaa exilispinosa (Liu and Hu, 1975)
Rana exilispinosa Liu and Hu, 1975, Acta Zool. Sinica, 21: 265. Holotype: CIB 64II06414, by original designation. Type locality: Daiyun Shan, Fujian, altitude 1100 m, China.
Rana (Paa) paraspinosa Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1102. Holotype: BMNH 1956.1.9.79, by original designation. Type locality: "Hong-Kong", China. Corrected to "The Peak, Hong-Kong", China, by Dubois, 1979, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 48: 656. Synonymy by Dubois, 1979, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 48: 649-656.
Rana (Paa) exilispinosa — Dubois, 1979, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 48: 649-656. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.
Paa (Paa) exilispinosa — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 156.
Paa (Quasipaa) exilispinosa — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 319-320.
Quasipaa exilispinosa — Jiang, Dubois, Ohler, Tillier, Chen, Xie, and Stöck, 2005, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 22: 358.
Nanorana exilispinosa — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239. by implication.
Quasipaa (Quasipaa) exilispinosa — Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2.
English Names
Hong Kong Spiny Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 22).
Common Spiny Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 22).
Lesser Spiny Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 22).
Hong Kong Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).
Little Spiny Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 206).
Distribution
Isolated populations in Hong Kong, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hunan, China, up to 1400 m elevation.
Comment
Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 206-208, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 22, also provided a brief account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Paa exilispinosa) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 490. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1365-1371, provided an account (as Paa exilispinosa) for China, figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa spinosa group.
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