Odorrana schmackeri (Boettger, 1892)
Rana schmackeri Boettger, 1892, Kat. Batr. Samml. Mus. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges.: 11. Holotype: SMF 6241 (formerly 1054. 2a) according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 46. Type locality: "Kao-cha-hien [= Gaojiayan] bei Ichang [= Yichang Shi], Prov. Hubei, Central-China".
Rana (Hylorana) schmackeri — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 126.
Rana melli Vogt, 1922, Arch. Naturgesch., Abt. A,, 88: 144. Holotype: ZMB, by original designation. Type locality: "aus der provinz Kuangtung die übringen sind im Yünnan gesammelt worden"; rendered as "Lienping, Kwangtung", China, by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 298. Tentative synonymy with Rana andersonii by Chang and Hsü, 1932, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc., China, Zool. Ser., 8: 161. Synonymy by Pope and Boring, 1940, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 15: 62-63; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 358; Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 298.
Hylorana melli — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.
Rana (Hylarana) schmackeri — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 357. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42; by implication.
Odorrana schmackeri — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 151. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 266.
Rana (Odorrana) schmackeri — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329.
Odorrana (Odorrana) schmackeri — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 130.
Odorrana schmackeri — 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 schmackeri — 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
Schmacker's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109; Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 140).
Piebald Odorous Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 198).
Kaochahien Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 31).
Distribution
Southern and south-central China in Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces, at 200-1400 m elevation; reports from Vietnam and Thailand require confirmation (see comment).
Comment
Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, Rana (Odorrana) andersonii group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. Discussed by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 176; Chang and Hsü, 1932, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc., China, Zool. Ser., 8: 165-169, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 208-211. See comment under Rana grahami. Removed from the synonymy of Rana andersonii by Pope and Boring, 1940, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 15: 62, where it had been placed by Schmidt, 1927, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 54: 553-575; and Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 551. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 266; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 200-201. Thailand is range according to Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 73, although this needs to be confirmed. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 202, provided a brief account and illustration. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 70-72, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 105, provided an account (as Odorrana schmackeri) for Guangxi. Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528-534, placed this in their Odorrana schmackeri group. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 90, stated the species to occur in Vietnam but did not substantiate this with reference to voucher specimens. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 140-141, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 31, noted the presence of this species in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. In the Odorrana (Odorrana) schmackeri group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126. See comment under Odorrana nanjiangensis. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1283-1289, provided an account, figures, and map for China, and placed it in their Odorrana (Odorrana) schmackeri group. Records from Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, China, are now referred to Odorrana huangangensis. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 341-343, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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