Hylarana maosonensis Bourret, 1937
Hylarana maosonensis Bourret, 1937, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1937: 36. Syntypes: MNHNP 38.46-53, 48.140-143 (formerly in LZUH), according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 42, CAS-SU 6392, FMNH (2 specimens, according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 54). Type locality: "Mao-Son", Tonkin, Vietnam.
Rana (Hylarana) maosonensis — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 351. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication.
Rana (Hylorana) maosonensis — Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 42.
Rana (Sylvirana) maosonensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.
Hylarana maosonensis — 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 maosonensis — 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) maosonensis — Jiang, Mo, Xie, and Ye, 2007, Herpetol. Sinica, 11: 5.
English Names
Mao-Son Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Distribution
Mountains of northeastern Vietnam (Tuyen Quang, Cao Bang, Yen Bai, Vinh Phu, Bac Thai, Bac Khan, Ha Bac, Quang Ninh, Hai Hung, Ha Tay, Son La, Ninh Binh, and Hoa Binh provinces) and central Vietnam (Quang Binh Province), Annamite range in Laos (Bolikhamxay and Khammouan Provinces), and in southern Guangxi, China.
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. Reviewed by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 351-352. See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 20. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 90, provided a statement of range. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 48, noted the species in the Annamite Mountains of Laos. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 29, provided specific localities for Vietnam and (p. 149) a photograph. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 478, provided a specific locality for Laos. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 110, provided a record for Bac Kan Province, Vietnam, and briefly discussed the range. Hendrix, Nguyen, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2008, Herpetol. Notes, 1: 23-31, provided a record from Quang Binh Province, Vietnam. Jiang, Mo, Xie, and Ye, 2007, Herpetol. Sinica, 11: 5-8, reported the species from Shiwandashan, southern Guangxi, China. Gawor, Hendrix, Vences, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2009, Zootaxa, 2051: 1-25, compared this species to other species similar to Hylarana nigrovittata. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1140-1143, 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.: 316, provided a brief account including photographs.
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