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Amolops vitreus (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Amolops

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Rana vitrea Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 49. Holotype: FMNH 258182, by original designation. Type locality: "Laos, Phongsaly Province, Phongsaly District, Phou Dendin National Biodiversity Conservation Area, collected on a stream bank near Nam Khang River in hilly evergreen forest, near 22° 09′ 04″ N, 102° 12′ 19″ E, 600 m elevation".

Odorrana vitrea — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13. by implication.

Amolops vitreus — Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 51.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from Phou Dendin National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Phongsaly District, Phongsaly Province, Laos.

Comment

Related to Rana archotaphus (now in Amolops) according to the original publication. In the Amolops monticola group of Stuart, Bain, Phimmachak, and Spence, 2010, Herpetologica, 66: 52-66.

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