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Ingerana alpina (Huang and Ye, 1997)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Occidozyginae > Genus: Ingerana

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Liurana alpinus Huang and Ye, 1997, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 6-7: 112, 115. Holotype: Chongqing Mus. Nat. Hist. 770611, by original designation. Type locality: "Dayandong, Medog Xian, altitude 3100 m", Xizang, China.

Ingerana alpina — 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: 366.

Liurana alpina — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 391. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 30. See comment under Dicroglossidae.

English Names

Alpine Papilla-tongued Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 391).

Alpine Eastern Frog (Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 50).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Medog County, Xizang, China).

Comment

Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1478-1481, provided an account for China (as Liurana alpina), figures, and map, and placed this species in their Liurana xizangensis group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 391, provided a brief account (as Liurana alpina). Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 50-51, provided an account as Ingerana alpina.

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