Microhyla heymonsi Vogt, 1911
Microhyla heymonsi Vogt, 1911, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1911: 181. Syntypes: ZMB 21944 (9 specimens), according to Bauer, Günther, and Robeck, 1996, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 72: 266. Type locality: "Formosa" (= Taiwan), China; restricted to "Kosempo, Formosa" [= Taiwan, China], by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 135.
Microhyla (Microhyla) heymonsi — Dubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 3.
Microhyletta heymonsi — Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 58, incorrect subsequent spelling.
English Names
Taiwan Rice Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).
Heymon's Ricefrog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 58).
Dark-sided Chorus Frog (Lim and Lim, 1992, Guide Amph. Rept. Singapore: 43; Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 104).
Arcuate-spotted Pygmy Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 292).
Heymon's Narrow-mouthed Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 54).
Heymon's Narrow-mouthed Toad (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 58; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 66).
Burrowing Microhylid Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 40).
Black-sided Narrow-mouthed Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 177).
Black-flanked pigmy Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 39).
Distribution
Southern China from Yunnan to Zhejiang (including Hainan and Taiwan) to Malay Peninsula and Sumatra; reported from Assam amd Manipur, northeastern India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India). Expected in intervening Myanmar.
Comment
Subgenus Microhyla, Microhyla achatina group. For accounts see Chan, 1977, Q. J. Taiwan Mus., 30: 323-327; Chang, 1947, Trans. Chinese Assoc. Adv. Sci., 9: 97; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 519-521; Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 593; Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 554-557; and Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 121-122. See accounts by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 239-241; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 342; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 292-294. Lim and Lim, 1992, Guide Amph. Rept. Singapore: 43, provided a brief account. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 221, provided a brief account and illustration. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 40, provided a brief account for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands populations. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 59, provided systematic comments. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 62-63. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 90-92, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 144, provided an account for Guangxi. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 138-139. Reported for southwestern Cambodia by Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 465-481. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 49, commented on the range in Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 104-105, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Grosselt, Sengupta, Gupta, Vauche, and Gupta, 2005, Hamadryad, 29: 131, reported the species from Silchar, Assam, India. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 45, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 476, provided specific localities for Laos. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 58-59, provided a brief account for Taiwan. Luo, Gao, Gao, Xiao, Zhu, Wen, and Jiang, 2008, Sichuan J. Zool., 27: 425, discussed the range in Chongqing, China. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 125, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 66-67, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Teynié, David, and Ohler, 2010, Zootaxa, 2416: 8, reported on a specimen from Sumatra and commented on the range. Sheridan, Bickford, and Su, 2010, Raffles Bull. Zool., 58: 369-379, reported on call similarity and genetic differences between populations in Singapore and Thailand. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 482-483, provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 55-57, provided an account for Hainan.
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