Hylarana latouchii (Boulenger, 1899)
Rana latouchii Boulenger, 1899, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899: 167. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 138, mentions 3 types. Type locality: "Kuatun, a village about 270 miles from Foochow [= Fuzhou Shi, Chongan County], in the mountains at the North-west of the Province of Fokien [=Fujian], at an altitude of 3000 to 4000 feet or more", China.
Rana (Hylorana) latouchii — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127-130.
Hylorana latouchii — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.
Rana latouchii — Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 188. Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 59.
Rana (Hylarana) latouchii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.
Hylarana (Hylarana) latouchii — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 140. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 243.
Rana (Sylvirana) latouchii — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.
Hylarana latouchii — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237. by implication; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3; by implication.
Sylvirana latouchii — 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. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.
Hylarana (Sylvirana) latouchii — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1134.
English Names
Kuatun Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
LaTouche's Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 29).
Latouche's Frog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 74).
Brown Wood Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 29; Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 74).
Broad-folded Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 174).
Distribution
Southern China: Taiwan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Jiangxu, and Anhui.
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. See Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 136; Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 531-534, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 188-190. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 239; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 174-175. Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 29, provided a brief account. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 6264, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 86, provided an account for Guangxi. In the Hylarana (Hylarana) latouchii group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 117. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 74-75, provided a brief account for Taiwan (as Rana latouchii). Jang-Liaw, Lee, and Chou, 2008, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 25: 68-79, discussed molecular phylogeography in Taiwan and provided evidence that the mainland population may not be conspecific with the Taiwan population and that the Taiwan range may conceal multiple mildly distinct populations. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1134-1139, provided an account, figures, and map for China and placed it in their Hylarana (Sylvirana) latouchii group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 315, provided a brief account including photographs.
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