Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana montivaga Smith, 1921, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1921: 436. Syntypes: BMNH (10 specimens—formerly M. Smith 2529-30, 2572, 4826, 4829, 5013, 5122-24, 5126). Type locality: "Dalat, Langbian Plateau, at 1500 metres", Vietnam.

Rana (Hylarana) montivaga — Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 542. Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 346; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication.

Hylarana montivaga — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 59.

Rana (Sylvirana) montivaga — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Hylarana montivaga — 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 montivaga — 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.

Bamburana montivaga — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35. See comment under Ranidae record.

English Names

Langbian Plateau Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Chantaburi Stream Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 132).

Distribution

Langbian Plateau, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam and southeastern Thailand; presumably in intervening Cambodia and Laos.

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. Allied with Rana varians, according to the original publication. See account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 346-348. See comment under Rana narina. See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 21. Thailand is included in range according to Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 73, although this needs to be confirmed. 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, reported the species in Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 132-133, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 30, provided specific localities for Vietnam.

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