Hyla chinensis Günther, 1858
Hyla arborea var. chinensis Günther, 1858, Arch. Naturgesch., 24: 328. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.23.97-98 (formerly 54.3.21.13), 1947.2.23.92-96 (formerly 59.11.1.1-5), 1947.2.24.1-2 (formerly 59.12.20.8-9), and 1947.2.23.99 (formerly 60.3.19.1102) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 89); Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 45, considered BMNH 1947.2.23.93 to be the holotype (= implicit lectotype designation). Type locality: "China"; given by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 382, as "China", "Formosa", and "Chusan?". Lectotype from "China".
Hyla chinensis — Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 436. Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 381; Schmidt, 1927, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 54: 561; Bourret, 1927, Fauna Indochine, Vert., 3: 261; Boring, 1938 "1938-1939", Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 13: 94; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 223-226; Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 225.
Hyla arborea var. chinensis — Boettger, 1885, Ber. Offenbach. Ver. Naturkd., 24-25: 164.
Hyla arborea var. sinensis — Gee, 1919, J. N. China Branch R. Asiat. Soc., N.S., 50: 184. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Hyla chinensis chinensis — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 201.
English Names
Common Chinese Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54; Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 32).
Common Chinese Treetoad (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 32).
Chinese Tree Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 146).
Distribution
Central and southeastern China (including Taiwan and northward to Henan) to northern Vietnam (Vinh Phuc Province; see comment).
Comment
In the Hyla arborea group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 101-102 (see comment under Hyla), and Hua, Fu, Li, Nieto-Montes de Oca, and Wiens, 2009, Herpetologica, 65: 246-259. See Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 466; Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 225; Okada, 1931, Tailless Batr. Japan. Empire: 64-66; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 223-226; and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 132-134, for discussion. See account by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 201. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 146-147, provided a brief account, map, and figure (as well as excluding southern China and Vietnam from its distribution). Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 50-51, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 63, provided an account for Guangxi. Zhang, 2002, Sichuan J. Zool., 21: 198-199, provided a key to differentiate this species from others in China. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 18, provided a specific locality for Vietnam (Tam Dao, Vinh Phuc Province). Because Hyla annectans is also recorded for this same locality one must question the identification of the sole Vietnam record (DRF). Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 32-33, provided a brief account for Taiwan. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 644-649, provided an account and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 246-247, provided a brief account including photographs.
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