Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana (Nidirana) lini Chou, 1999, Herpetologica, 55: 301. Holotype: NMNS 3258, by original designation. Type locality: "China: Yunnan Province: Simao Prefecture: Jiangcheng Co., 8 km N Jiangcheng. A pond adjacent to a subtropical forest. 22° 39′ 57″ N, 101° 52′ 22″ E at an elevation of 1400 m".

Hylarana (Nidirana) lini — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 120.

Nidirana lini — 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 lini — 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

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from Simao and Honge prefectures, southern Yunnan, China, near the northwestern Vietnam border, Laos (Xieang Khouang Province) and Thailand (Loei and Phetchabun Provinces).

Comment

Most similar to Babina psaltes (as Rana) according to the original publication. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1181-1185, provided an account (as Hylarana lini), figures, and map for China and placed it in their Hylarana (Nidirana) adenopleura group. Chuaynkern, Ohler, Inthara, Duengkae, Makchai, and Salangsingha, 2010, Raffles Bull. Zool., 58: 291-310, redescribed the species and noted that specimens reported from Thailand as Rana adenopleura and some specimens from Laos reported as Babina chapaensis are referrable to this species. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 308-309, provided a brief account (as Hylarana lini) including photographs of specimens and habitat.

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