Ingerana liui (Yang, 1983)
Platymantis liui Yang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 53, 56. Holotype: KIZ 195, by original designation. Type locality: "Menglun, Mengla County, Yunnan, alt. 550 m", China.
Micrixalus liui —Zhao In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 468. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 170; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 136.
Ingerana (Liurana) liui — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 65.
Platymantis liui — Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 293.
Liurana liui — Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 222-224.
Taylorana liui — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 391. See comment under Dicroglossidae.
English Names
Menglun Eastern Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99).
Liu's Papillae-tongued Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 216).
Liu's Taylor Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 391).
Distribution
Southwestern Yunnan (Mengla, Jinghong, and Cangyuan counties), China, to the Laos border, 550-760 m elevation; expected in adjacent Laos and Myanmar.
Comment
Closely related to Cornufer tenaserrimensis (= Ingerana tenasserimensis of this list), according to the original publication. See Liu and Hu, 1960 "1959", Acta Zool. Sinica, 11: 521-522. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 170-172; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 222-223, provided a brief account, figure, and map. See also brief account (as Micrixalus liui) by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 101-102. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 90-91, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 481. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1474-1478, provided an account for China (as Liurana liui), figures, and map, and placed this species in their monotypic Liurana liui group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 391, provided a brief account (as Taylorana liui).
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
- for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
