Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana kuangwuensis Liu and Hu In Hu, Zhao, and Liu, 1966, Acta Zool. Sinica, 18: 77. Holotype: CIB 610551. Type locality: "Kuang-wu Shan [= Mt. Guangwu Shan], Nankiang Hsien [= Nanjiang County], Szechwan [= Sichuan Province], alt. 1,650 m", China.

Odorrana kuangwuensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 150. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 261; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 190.

Rana (Odorrana) kuangwuensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329.

Odorrana (Odorrana) kuangwensis — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126.

Huia kuangwuensis — 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.

Odorrana kuangwuensis — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13. by implication.

English Names

Kuang-wu Shan Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Kwangwu Odorous Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 190).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality on Mount Guangwu, Nanjiang County, Sichuan, China, 1650 m elevation.

Comment

Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, Rana (Odorrana) andersonii group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. Related to Rana margaretae according to the original publication. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 190-191, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 200, provided a brief account and illustration (as Odorrana kuangwuensis). Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528-534, suggested that this is the sister species of Odorrana wuchuanensis and placed this together in their Odorrana kuangwuensis group. In the Odorrana (Odorrana) margaretae group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana kuangwuensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 505. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1228-1231, provided an account, figures, and map for China and placed it in their Odorrana margaretae group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 336, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.

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