Odorrana margaretae (Liu, 1950)
Rana margaretae Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 303. Holotype: FMNH 49418, by original designation. Type locality: "Panlungshan [= Mt. Panlong], Kwanhsien [= Guan county], Szechwan [= Sichuan Province], 3500 feet altitude", China.
Rana margaratae — Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 204. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Odorrana margaretae — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 147. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 262; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 192.
Rana (Odorrana) margaretae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329.
Odorrana (Odorrana) margaretae — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126.
Odorrana margaretae — 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.
Huia margaretae — 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
Margareta's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Margaret Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 29).
Green Odorous Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 192).
Distribution
Gansu, Guangxi, eastern Xizang, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, and southern Shaanxi, China, 390-1500 m elevation; mountains of northern Vientam (Lao Cai and Lai Chau provinces), 1900-2500 m.
Comment
Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, Rana (Odorrana) andersonii group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. See comment under Rana grahami. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 192-193, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 204-206, provided an account. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 197, provided a brief account and illustration (as Odorrana margaretae). Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 103, provided an account (as Odorrana margaratae) for Guangxi. Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528-534, suggested that this is the sister species of Odorrana andersonii plus Odorrana hainanensis. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 90, provided a statement of range in Vietnam but did not substantiate this with reference to voucher specimens. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 29, provided specific localities for Vietnam. In the Odorrana (Odorrana) margaretae group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126. Zhao, Rao, Lü, and Dong, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 251, provided a brief note on specimens from Medog County, Xizang, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1231-1237, 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.: 338-339, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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