Clinotarsus alticola (Boulenger, 1882)
Hylorana pipiens Jerdon, 1870, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1870: 83. Types: Not designated, but including ZSIC 10039 and 10041-45, according to Annandale, 1917, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 6: 144. Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 105-106, considered only ZSIC 10039, 10043-45 as syntypes. Specimens cited by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 62, as collected by Jerdon might be BMNH types. Type locality: "Shillong", Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, northeastern India. Stated to be "Shillong on the Khasi hills" by Stoliczka, 1872, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1872: 106. Considered a synonym of Rana nigrovittata by Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 9. Secondary homonym of Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782.
Hylarana pipiens — Stoliczka, 1872, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1872: 106.
Rana alticola Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 62. Replacement name for Hylorana pipiens Jerdon, 1870, a secondary homonym of Rana pipiens Schreber.
Rana (Hylorana) alticola — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 125.
Hylorana alticola — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 145.
Hylarana alticola — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 59.
Rana (Hylarana) alticola — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 348. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication.
Rana (Nasirana) alticola — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329.
Nasirana alticola — 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: 369.
Clinotarsus alticola — Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 58. by implication.
English Names
Assam Hills Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).
Annandale's Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65).
Pointed-headed Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 85).
Palebrown Stream Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 121).
Hill Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 140; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 72).
Point-nosed Frog (Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 41).
High-altitude Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 76).
Distribution
Hills of Meghalaya and northeastern India (Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim and West Bengal) to northern Bangladesh, possibly into Bhutan and Nepal; peninsular Myanmar and northern peninsular Thailand.
Comment
Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, sole member of the subgenus Nasirana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328, although this taxaomy is now superseded. See accounts by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 166; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 348-350; and Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 453-456. Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 59, mentions Hylorana alticola in the list of amphibians of Vietnam from Mao Son, Tonkin. However, in Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 350, he states that the specimens cited as Hylorana alticola, collected by Fruehstorfer, are in fact specimens of Rana nasica (= Amolops nasicus). Thus there is no evidence for Rana alticola to occur in Vietnam and this country should be removed from the distribution of this species according to Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 90. Choudhury, Hussain, Buruah, Saikia, and Sengupta, 2002, Hamadryad, 26: 278-279, commented on the range in Assam, India. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 85-86, provided a brief account (as Rana alticola). See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 84-86, to compare this species to other ranids of the Sunda Shelf region. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 140-141, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 154, provided range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Reza, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 234, provided the first vouchered record from Bangladesh. Sen and Mathew, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 285: 124, provided a specific record for Nagaland, northeastern India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 76, provided a brief characterization and photograph as well as suggesting that the species occurs in Sri Lanka and South India, presumably based on considering Clinotarsus curtipes (not mentioned by them) and Clinotarsus alticola to be conspecific. Mahony, Hasan, Kabir, Ahmed, and Hossain, 2009, Hamadryad, 34: 80-94, provided records for northern Bangladesh.
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