Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana narina Stejneger, 1901, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 14: 189. Holotype: TIU 19A, lost according to Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 123. Type locality: "Okinawa Shima, Riu Kiu Archipelago", Japan.

Buergeria ijimae Stejneger, 1901, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 14: 190. Holotype: TIU 19(914), lost by implication that entire collection destroyed in WWII according to Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2. Type locality: "Okinawa Shima, Riu Kiu Archipelago", Japan. Synonymy by Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 331-332; Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 51; Matsui, 1994, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 111: 385-415; Matsui and Ota, 1995, Spec. Publ. Japan. Soc. Coleopterol., Tokyo, 4: 491.

Rana ijimae — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 121.

Rana (Hylorana) ijimae — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127-130.

Rana (Rana) narina — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 7.

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

Rana narina narina — Wang and Chan, 1977, Q. J. Taiwan Mus., 30: 329-339. by implication.

Rana (Euphlyctis) narina — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 239. by implication.

Euphlyctis narina — Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 124. by implication.

Rana (Hylarana) narina narina — Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 120.

Pelophylax narina — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 133.

Rana (Eburana) ijimae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328.

Rana (Eburana) narina — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328.

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

Eburana ijimae — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35. Unexplained recognition. See comment under Ranidae record.

Eburana narina — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 36. See comment under Ranidae record.

English Names

Ryukyu Island Frog (Rana narina: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Ijima Frog (Rana ijimae [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Ryukyu Tip-nosed Frog (Rana narina: Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 120-123).

Okinawa Tip-nosed Frog (Rana narina: Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 76).

Distribution

Northern part of Okinawa Ryukyu Islands, Japan.

Comment

Subgenus Eburana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328. See Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 134-136; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 176; Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 123-126; and Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 51. See comment under Rana ijimae. Records of China refer to Rana swinhoana; see comment under Rana swinhoana. Intraspecific differentiation reported by Nishioka, Ueda, and Sumida, 1987, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 9: 261-303, who noted what presumably constitute a minimum of three species (and possibly be six—DRF): (1) "Iriomote Dwarf-type" + "Ishigaki Dwarf type" (now Rana utsunomiyaorum ), "Iriomote Giant-type" + "Ishigaki Giant type" (now Rana supranarina), "Okinawa Middle-type" (type of Rana narina—DRF) + "Amami Giant-type". The "Amami Giant type" is now Rana amamiensis. See Rana supranarina. Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 120-123, provided an account. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 76-78, provided an account, map, and photograph. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana narina) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 508.

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