Glandirana minima (Ting and T'sai, 1979)
Rana minimus Ting and T'sai, 1979, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 4: 297, 299. (Authors also transliterated as Ding and Cai--DRF.) Holotype: Dept. Biology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 58001, by original designation. Type locality: "vicinity of Lingshi Monastery [=Lingshi Si], Dongzhang, Fuqing Xian, alt. 300 m", Fujian, China.
Glandirana minima — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 147. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 256; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 114.
Rana (Glandirana) minima — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328.
Glandirana minima — 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. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 37. See comment under Ranidae record..
English Names
Fujian Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Little Gland Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 187-189).
Distribution
Eastern part of Fujian Province, China, 110-550 m elevation.
Comment
Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, subgenus Glandirana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 187-189, provided a brief account, map, and figure. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana mangyanum) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 507. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1100-1105, provided an account, figures, and map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 294-295, provided a brief account including photographs.
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