Babina pleuraden (Boulenger, 1904)
Rana pleuraden Boulenger, 1904, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 13: 131. Syntypes: BMNH. Type locality: "Yunnan Fu (altitude about 6000 feet)", Yunnan, China.
Rana (Rana) pleuraden — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 9.
Pelophylax pleuraden — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 133-134. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 228.
Rana (Nidirana) pleuraden — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324.
Nidirana pleuraden — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237.
Babina pleuraden — 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.
Dianrana pleuraden — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35. See comment under Ranidae record.
English Names
Yunkwei Plateau Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).
Yunnan Pond Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 166).
Distribution
Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou (Yunkwei Plateau), China; likely in adjacent northern Myanmar.
Comment
In the Rana (Nidirana) pleuraden group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. Accounts provided by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 90; Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 260-262, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 170-171. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 228; Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 145-147; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 166-167. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 175, provided a brief account and illustration (as Pelophylax pleuraden). See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 96-97. In the Pelophylax pleuraden group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 111. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 72, provided a brief account (as Rana pleuraden) for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1080-1084, provided an account (as Pelophylax pleuraden), figures, and map for China and included it in their Pelophylax nigromaculatus group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 290-291, provided a brief account (as Pelophylax pleuraden) including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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