Hylarana guentheri (Boulenger, 1882)
Rana guentheri Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 48. Syntypes: BMNH (three specimens) including animal figured in pl. 4, fig. 2 of the original publication. Type locality: "Amoy" (2 specimens) and "China" (1 specimen). Restricted to "Amoy" by Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 29.
Rana elegans Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 59. Syntypes: BMNH (3 specimens, including one figured in pl. 5, fig. 1 of the original), by original designation. Type locality: "W. Africa" (2 specimens) and unknown (1 specimen). Synonymy by Boulenger, 1907, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907: 481. Synonymy questioned by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 309.
Limnodytes elegans — Rochebrune, 1884, Fauna Senegambie, Amph.: 23.
Rana (Hylorana) guentheri — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 123.
Hylorana güntheri — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 145.
Hylarana guentheri — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 46. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 193; Song, Jang, Zou, and Shi, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 71.
Rana (Hylarana) guentheri — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.
Hylarana (Hylarana) guentheri — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 140. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 241; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 115.
Rana (Sylvirana) guentheri — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.
Hylarana guentheri — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237. by implication; 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: 370; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3; by implication.
Rana güntheri — Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 68. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Hylarana (Sylvirana) guentheri — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1128.
Boulengerana guentheri — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35. See comment under Ranidae record.
English Names
Gunther's Amoy Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).
Guenther's Amoy Frog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 68).
Günther's Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 25; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 122).
Guenther's Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 172; Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 68).
Günther's Red-and-black Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 123).
Distribution
Central Vietnam throughout southern China (north to Yangtze River), including Hainan and Taiwan; introduced onto Guam.
Comment
Prior to the revision of 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, placed in the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Sylvirana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. Discussed by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 133; Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 529-531; Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 318-321; and Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 309-312. See also Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 191-193. See also Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 843; Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 125-127; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 239; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 172-173. Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 25, provided a brief account. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 193, provided a brief account and illustration (as Hylarana guentheri). Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 57-58, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 85, provided an account for Guangxi. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 89, reported that the species occurs in Laos. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 27, provided specific localities for Vietnam and (p. 149) a photograph. In the Hylarana (Hylarana) guentheri group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 118. Yang and Zhao, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 309-311, provided a specific location on Hainan and habitat. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 68-69, provided a bried account for Taiwan. Gawor, Hendrix, Vences, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2009, Zootaxa, 2051: 1-25, compared this species to other species similar to Hylarana nigrovittata. Christy, Clark, Gee, Vice, Vice, Warner, Tyrrell, Rodda, and Savidge, 2007, Pacific Sci., 61: 469-483, reported reproducing populations on Guam. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1128-1134, provided an account, figures, and map for China and placed it in their Hylarana (Sylvirana) guentheri group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 312-313, provided a brief account including photographs. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 113-115, provided an account for Hainan as Rana guentheri.
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