Odorrana swinhoana (Boulenger, 1903)
Rana swinhoana Boulenger, 1903, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 12: 556. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Bangkimtsing [= Chihshan or Wanluan], Formosa [= Taiwan]", China.
Rana kosempensis Werner, 1914 "1913", Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 30: 48. Syntypes: (4 specimens) in BMNH and NHMW 20841, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 27, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 32, also MCZ 13247, according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 328, ZMH A00027-28 according to Hallermann, 1998, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 95: 199. Type locality: "Kosempo" (= Chiahsien), Taiwan, China. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 192; Wang and Chan, 1977, Q. J. Taiwan Mus., 30: 330.
Rana (Hylorana) swinhoana — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127-130.
Hylorana swinhoana — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.
Rana taiwaniana Otsu, 1973, Q. J. Taiwan Mus., 26: 114. Holotype: Mus. Yamagata Univ., Sect. Zool. i—1,206, by original designation. Type locality: "Shanlin Chiti of Taiwan", north side of Mt. Ali, alt. 1600 m, Taiwan, China. Synonymy by Lue and Lai, 1990, Amph. Taiwan: XXX; Matsui, 1994, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 111: 385-415 (undiscussed); Matsui, 2005, Curr. Herpetol., 24: 1-6 (who redescribed the holotype).
Rana narina swinhoana — Wang and Chan, 1977, Q. J. Taiwan Mus., 30: 330.
Rana (Hylarana) swinhoana — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.
Odorrana swinhoana — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 149. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 261.
Amolops (Amolops) taiwanianus — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 321.
Rana (Eburana) swinhoana — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328. Matsui, 1994, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 111: 385-415.
Rana taiwaniana — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 150.
Odorrana (Odorrana) taiwaniana — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126.
Odorrana (Odorrana) swinhoana — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 130.
Odorrana swinhoana — 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 swinhoana — 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.
Eburana swinhoana — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 36. See comment under Ranidae record.
English Names
Bangkimtsing Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).
Brown-backed Odorous Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 200).
Swinhoe's Brown Frog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 86).
Taiwan Sucker Frog (Rana taiwaniana [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97).
Taiwan Odorous Frog (Rana taiwaniana [no longer recognized]: Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 345).
Distribution
Taiwan, China.
Comment
Subgenus Eburana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328. Removed from the synonymy of Rana narina; without discussion, by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328. Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 212, considered Chinese populations of Rana montivaga to be referable to Rana swinhoana Boulenger, 1903, which was formerly as a subspecies of Rana narina, following Wang and Chan, 1977, Q. J. Taiwan Mus., 30: 329-339 (who also included Rana kosempensis Werner, 1914, as a synonym). Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 150, rejected the synonymy of Rana swinhoana with Rana narina on the basis of differences in the snout and feet. See accounts by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 192; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 200-201. Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528-534, placed this in their Odorrana schmackeri group. In the Odorrana (Odorrana) schmackeri group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 86-87, provided a brief account (as Rana swinhoana) for Taiwan. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1224-1228, provided accounts, figures, and map for China as both Odorrana taiwaniana (in their Odorrana taiwaniana group) and (pp. 1289-1294) as Odorrana swinhoana (in their Odorrana schmackeri group). The rejection by these authors of the synonymy by Matsui, 2005, Curr. Herpetol., 24: 1-6, of Odorrana swinhoana with Odorrana taiwaniana is confusing (DRF). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 344 (as Odorrana swinhoana) and page 321 (as Odorrana taiwaniana), provided brief accounts including photographs of specimens of nominal Odorrana swinhoana.
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