Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana shini Ahl, 1930, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1930: 315. Syntypes: ZMB (originally 4 specimens), unnumbered according to the original publication; MCZ 17651 (on exchange from ZMB, is a syntype according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 184). Type locality: "Yao-schan [= Dayao Shan], Nordteil der Provinz Kwangsi [= Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region]", China, 1500 m.

Rana (Paa) shini — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.

Paa (Paa) shini — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 156. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 281.

Paa (Quasipaa) shini — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320.

Rana shini — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 149.

Nanorana shini — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239. by implication.

Quasipaa shini — Frost, 2006, Amph. Spec. World Online, vers. 4.0: 358. ; 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 (not noted, but by implication).

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

English Names

Chinese Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).

Spiny-flanked Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 206).

Distribution

Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, and Chongong, China, 510-1500 m elevation.

Comment

Considered a synonym of Quasipaa spinosa (as Rana spinosa) by Liu, 1935, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 10: 55-60, but resurrected by Liu and Hu, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14 (Supplement): 76. See Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 142. For elevation of the type locality see Mell, 1930, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1930: 310. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 281; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 206-207. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 112, provided an account for Guangxi. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Paa shini) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 492. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1361-1365, provided an account (as Paa shini) for China, figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa boulengeri group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 374-375, provided a brief account (as Paa shini) including photographs.

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