Hylarana nigrovittata (Blyth, 1856)
Lymnodytes nigrovittatus Blyth, 1856 "1855", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24: 718. Syntypes: ZSIC 2685, 2773-74 (according to Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 9). Annandale, 1917, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 6: 144, reported only ZSIC 2685, 2773 as ZSIC specimens (the third to the BMNH on exchange). Anderson, 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871: 206, noted one specimen in the ZSIC as "Blyth's type") and BMNH. BMNH 1947.2.2.93 (formerly 1893.2.14.4) (presumed former ZSIC 2774) designated lectotype by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 341. Type locality: Collection report on material collected in "Mergue and the valley of the Tenasserim River", Myanmar; Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 9, gives type locality as "Mergui". Annandale, 1917, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 6: 144, lists type locality as "Pegu [= Bago], Lower Burma", which ; by implication in the original paper) suggests a type locality of "Schwe Gyen on the Sitang River, Pegu", Myanmar, the source of the Pegu material cited.
Gymnodytes nigrovittata — Anderson, 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871: 205. Error for Limnodytes nigrovittata.
Hylorana nigrovittata — Anderson, 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871: 205.
Rana nigrovittata — Sclater, 1892, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1892: 345. Boulenger, 1893, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 13: 334.
Rana (Hylorana) nigrovittata — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 124.
Hylorana nigrovittata — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.
Hylarana nigrovittata — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 46.
Rana (Hylarana) nigrovittata — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 318. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 174.
Hylarana (Hylarana) nigrovittata — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 140.
Rana (Sylvirana) nigrovittata — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.
Hylarana nigrovittata — 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 nigrovittata — 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) nigrovittata — Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2008, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 33: 206.
English Names
Black-striped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 174; Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 80).).
Black-spotted Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 79; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 83).
Sapgreen Stream Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 119).
Dark-sided Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 134).
Distribution
Nepal and West Bengal, Assam. and Meghalaya (India) as well as adjacent Bangladesh to Yunnan and Guangxi (China), Vietnam and south to Malaya.
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: 144; Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 440-443; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 317-320; Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 81-82; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 195-197; Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 143-145; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 174-176. See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 21-22. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 113-115. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 90, provided a statement of range. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 95-96. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 295-298, provided an account for the Nepal population. Matsui, Nishikawa, Khonsue, Panha, and Nabhitabhata, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 15-22, studied allozyme variation in Thailand and found two distinct populations that are likely distinct species, one in northwestern and northern Thailand south to Ko Samul Island off Tenasserim and another (now Rana mortensenii) found in eastern Thailand and one locality in peninsular Thailand near the Malaysia line. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 119, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 48, noted the range in Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 134-135, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Teynié, David, Ohler, and Luanglath, 2004, Hamadryad, 29: 37, provided a record and comments for Laos. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 30, provided specific localities for Vietnam. In the Hylarana (Hylarana) nigrovittata group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 118. Dubois, 2004, Alytes, 21: 175, noted that use of this name for populations in Nepal, likely refer to populations of Rana (Sylvirana) chitwaensis. Stuart, Sok, and Neang, 2006, Raffles Bull. Zool., 54: 141, provided a record for Cambodia. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 162-163, provided a range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2008, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 33: 199-206, provided a key to the close relatives of this species and discussed misidentifications in the Chinese literature. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 71-72, provided a brief account (as Rana nigrovittata). Mo, Zhou, Xie, and Chen, 2007, Herpetol. Sinica, 11: 15-18, reported the species in Guangxi, China. Gawor, Hendrix, Vences, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2009, Zootaxa, 2051: 1-25, suggested on the basis of molecular and larval differences that populations in northern Thailand and Vietnam represent different species. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 83-84, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Mahony, Hasan, Kabir, Ahmed, and Hossain, 2009, Hamadryad, 34: 80-94, reported Hylarana cf. nigrovittata from the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh, implying that nominal Hylarana nigrovittata may be a species complex. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 71, for brief account (as Rana nigrovittata).
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