Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Polypedates chloronotus Günther, 1876 "1875", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875: 569. Syntypes: BMNH (10 specimens); according to Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 17, including BMNH 1947.2.28.4 (in error, actually 1947.2.28.6, according to R. Bain, personal commun.), 1947.2.28.6 (in error, actually 1947.2.28.10, according to R. Bain, personal commun.), and 1047.2.28.12 (from Darjeeling). Type locality: "Darjeeling", India.

Rana chloronota — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 29.

Hylorana chloronota — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.

Rana (Odorrana) chloronota — Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 17.

Odorrana chloronota — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication; Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 54.

Huia chloronota — 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: 368.

English Names

Chloronate Huia Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 82).

Copper-cheeked Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 86).

Distribution

Forest montane river cascade systems throughout Southeast Asia from Darjeeling region of West Bengal and mountains of northeastern India (Assam, Meghalaya, and Mizoram) and Sikkim through Myanmar to southern China and southern Vietnam.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Rana livida by Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 17, where it had been placed by Boulenger, 1887, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 5: 484; Boulenger, 1890, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. Batr.: 462; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 214; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 371 (with Polypedates smaragdinus by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 69). See account by Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 17-24. See comments under Rana livida for references to this species as Rana livida. Bain and Nguyen, 2004, Am. Mus. Novit., 3453: 12, provided the record for Ha Giang Province, Vietnam. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 29, provided specific localities (as Rana livida) for Vietnam. Stuart, Inger, and Voris, 2006, Biol. Lett., 2: 470-474, provided molecular data and suggested on this basis that nominal Odorrana chloronota represents several unnamed species, of which his Thailand populations represented at least two. Lalremsanga, Sailo, and Hooroo, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 359, provided a record for Mizoram, northeastern India. Wogan, Vindum, Wilkinson, Koo, Slowinski, Win, Thin, Kyi, Oo, Lwin, and Shein, 2008, Hamadryad, 33: 87, provided records from Bago Division, Kachin State, Rakhine State, Sagaing Division, Shan State, and Tanintharyi Division, Myanmar. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 86, provided a brief characterization and a photograph.

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