Amolops gerbillus (Annandale, 1912)
Rana gerbillus Annandale, 1912, Rec. Indian Mus., 8: 10. Holotype: ZSIC 16925, according to Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 69. Type locality: "Yembung, Abor foot-hills at an altitude of 1,100. ft. ", Arunachal Pradesh, India (in region claimed by China).
Rana (Hylorana) gerbillus — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127-130.
Amolops gerbillus — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 165.
Amolops (Amolops) gerbillus — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 321.
Rana gerbillus — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 142.
English Names
Yembung Sucker Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97).
Gerbil Stream Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 68).
Small-eared Torrent Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 232).
Gerbil Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 108).
Gerbil's Stream Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 72).
Distribution
Southern slope of Himalayas in Xizang (China), northern and northeastern India (Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, West Bengal, and Arunachal Pradesh) and adjacent Myanmar; possibly in Bhutan and Nepal.
Comment
See account (as Rana gerbillus) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 208, and (as Amolops gerbillus) by Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 232-233. Choudhury, Hussain, Buruah, Saikia, and Sengupta, 2002, Hamadryad, 26: 277-278, commented on the Indian range. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 108-113, provided a brief account (as Rana gerbillus). Sarkar, Biswas, and Ray, 1992, State Fauna Ser., 3: 80, provided a brief account for West Bengal, India. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 113, provided partial bibliography, systematic comments, and range in India. Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1117-1125, provided a specific locality for Nagaland, northeastern India. Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 295, provided a brief account (as Rana gerbillus) for Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Devi and Shamungou, 2006, J. Exp. Zool. India, 9: 317-324, and Ningombam and Bordoloi, 2007, Zoos' Print J., 22: 2688-2690, provided records for Manipur, northeastern India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 72, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1519-1521, provided an account, figures, and range map, and included the species in their Amolops monticola group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 397, provided a brief account.
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