Amolops longimanus (Andersson, 1939)
Rana longimanus Andersson, 1939 "1938", Ark. Zool., 30(23): 4. Holotype: ZIUS, according to XXX. Type locality: "Kambaiti", Upper Myanmar; elsewhere in the description noted as "little village of Kambaiti situated in N. East Burma near the border of China in a highland 2,000 m above the sea level".
Amolops longimanus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 51.
Amolops (Amolops) longimanus — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 321.
English Names
Kambaiti Sucker Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in northeastern Myanmar on the Chinese border.
Comment
Closely related to Amolops formosa (as Rana formosa) according to the original publication. Not treated by Yang, 1991, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 63: 1-42. Dever, Fuiten, Konu, and Wilkinson, 2012, Copeia, 2012: 57
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