Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Cornufer xizangensis Hu In Sichuan Institute of Biology Herpetology Department, 1977, Acta Zool. Sinica, 23: 58, 63. Holotype: CIB 73I0492, by original designation. Type locality: "Bomi, Yi'ong, Xizang [=Tibet], alt. 2300 m", China.

Ingerana (Liurana) xizangensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 65.

Platymantis xizangensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 161. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 293.

Micrixalus xizangensis — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 136. ( Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 53, predicted this as a likely combination.)

Liurana xizangensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1997, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 6-7: 77 <. <13740, Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 30. See comment under Dicroglossidae.

English Names

Xizang Eastern Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 52).

Xizang Papillae-tongued Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 226).

Distribution

Known only from the region of the type locality, Xizang (=Tibet), China.

Comment

See comments under Platymantis liui and Ingerana medogensis. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 294; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 226. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1486-1489, 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.: 393, provided a brief account (as Liurana xizangensis) including photographs. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 52-53, provided an account.

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