Hyla simplex Boettger, 1901
Hyla chinensis var. simplex Boettger, 1901, Ber. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 1901 (Wiss. Abhandl.): 53. Holotype: SMF 2626, according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 41. Type locality: "Phuc-Son in Annam", Vietnam.
Hyla simplex — Boulenger, 1903, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 12: 186. Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 477-480; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 58.
Hyla chinensis simplex — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 201. Bourret, 1937, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1937: 21.
Hyla simplex simplex — Fei and Ye, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 71. by implication.
Hyla simplex hainanensis Fei and Ye, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 71, 73. Holotype: CIB 64III4273, by original designation. Type locality: "Wenchang County (110° 70′ E, 19° 62′ N), Hainan Province, altitude 20 m", China.
English Names
Annam Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).
South China Tree Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 142).
South China Tree Toad (Hyla simplex simplex: Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 256).
Hainan Tree Toad (Hyla simplex hainanensis: Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 256
Distribution
Vietnam (Annam and Tonkin), northeastern Laos, and southern China (Guangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Guangdong and Hainan Island).
Comment
In the Hyla arborea group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102 (see comment under Hyla), although it is likely to be a member of the Hyla eximia group (DRF). See Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 477-480, Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 128-130, and (as Hyla chinensis simplex) Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 224-226. See account by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 205. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 142-144, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 53-54, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 66, provided an account for Guangxi. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 83, provided the Laos component of the range statement. 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 specific localities for Vietnam. In the Hyla immaculata group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 98, who provided a key to the subspecies. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 605-613, provided accounts by species and subspecies, illustrations of holotypes, and spot maps. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 256, provided brief accounts as Hyla simplex simplex and Hyla simplex hainanensis. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 45-46, provided an account for Hainan.
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