Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla chinensis var. immaculata Boettger, 1888, Ber. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 1888: 189. Holotype: Not stated; given as SMF 2310 (formerly 1381.2b) by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 41. Type locality: "Shanghai", Zhejiang, China.

Hyla arborea var. immaculata — Boettger, 1892, Kat. Batr. Samml. Mus. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges.: 43.

Hyla chinensis var. immaculata — Boettger, 1895, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 10: 189.

Hyla arborea immaculata — Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 146. Boring, 1930, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 5: 47; Boring, 1938 "1938-1939", Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 13: 95; ; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 127; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 58.

Hyla immaculata — Schmidt, 1927, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 54: 561. Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 464; Boring, Liu, and Chou, 1932, Handb. N. China, Amph. Rept.: 25; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 140-141.

English Names

Spotless Tree Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 140).

North China Tree Toad (Boring, Liu, and Chou, 1932, Handb. N. China, Amph. Rept.: 29).

Distribution

Eastern and central China (Anhui, Fujian, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Zhejiang).

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). In the Hyla immaculata group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 99. Hua, Fu, Li, Nieto-Montes de Oca, and Wiens, 2009, Herpetologica, 65: 246-259, presented molecular evidence for its placement in the Hyla japonica group. See account (as Hyla arborea immaculata) by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 127-128, Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 186. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 142-143, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 160, provided a brief account and illustration. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 49, provided an account (as Hyla arborea immaculata) for Zhejiang populations. Zhang, 2002, Sichuan J. Zool., 21: 198-199, provided a key to differentiate this species from others in China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 595-600, provided an account and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 254-255, provided a brief account including photographs.

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