Amolops monticola (Anderson, 1871)
Hylorana monticola Anderson, 1871, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 40: 20. Holotype: Not stated; ZSIC 10036 according to Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 10. Type locality: "Darjeeling, 3500 feet", West Bengal, India.
Rana monticola — Boulenger, 1890, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. Batr.: 461.
Rana (Hylorana) monticola — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127-130.
Staurois monticola — Sichuan Biological Research Institute, 1977, Syst. Key Chinese Amph.: 56.
Amolops monticola —Zhao In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 455. Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 165.
Amolops (Amolops) monticola — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 321.
English Names
Mountain Sucker Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97; Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 90; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 57).
Mountain Stream Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 71).
Mountain Torrent Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 232; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 57).
Mountain Cascade Frog (Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 79; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 57).
Montane Cascade Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 73).
Cascade Frog (Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 90).
Distribution
Darjeeling region of northeastern India to eastern Nepal and northwestern India (Nagaland and West Bengal) to Xizang (China), 1550-2350 m elevation; presumably in intervening Bhutan.
Comment
See account (as Rana monticola) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 206. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 232-233, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 53-54, 215, provided a brief account. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 115-116. See brief account by Shrestha, 2001, Herpetol. Nepal: 90-91. Sarkar, Biswas, and Ray, 1992, State Fauna Ser., 3: 76, provided a brief account for West Bengal, India. See comment under Amolops himalayanus. 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. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 73-74, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1522-1526, 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.: 412, provided a brief account including photographs. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 57-58, provided an account for Xizang, China. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 49, for brief account for Nepal.
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