Babina chapaensis (Bourret, 1937)
Hylarana chapaensis Bourret, 1937, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1937: 34. Syntypes: MNHNP 1938.58-65 and 1948.144-147 (12 specimens) (formerly LSNUH). MNHNP 1938.61 (formerly LSNUH Z 270) designated lectotype by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 341. Type locality: "Chapa" (= Sa Pa), Lao Cai Province, Vietnam.
Rana (Hylarana) chapaensis — Bourret, 1937, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1937: 34. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication.
Rana (Hylorana) chapaensis — Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 41.
Rana (Nidirana) chapaensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324.
Nidirana chapaensis — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35. See comment under Ranidae record.
Babina chapaensis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 368.
English Names
Chapa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).
Glandular-sided Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 126).
Distribution
Lao Cai and Ha Tinh provinces,Vietnam, and Xieng Khouang and Salavan provinces, Laos.
Comment
In the Rana (Nidirana) adenopleura group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. See account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 341-343, who considered it to be a member of the subgenus Hylarana. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 126-127, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 26, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 477, provided specific localities for Laos. Chuaynkern, Ohler, Inthara, Duengkae, Makchai, and Salangsingha, 2010, Raffles Bull. Zool., 58: 291-310, noted that specimens from Thailand are referrable to Babina lini.
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