Odorrana versabilis (Liu and Hu, 1962)
Rana versabilis Liu and Hu, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14 (Supplement): 89, 103. Holotype: CIB 603803, by original designation. Type locality: "San-men of Hua-ping, Lung-shen-hsien [= Longsheng County], altitude 870 m, Kwangsi [= Guangxi Xiang Autonomous Region]", China.
Odorrana versabilis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 149. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 261; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 190; Song, Jang, Zou, and Shi, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 70.
Rana (Odorrana) versabilis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329.
Odorrana (Bamburana) versabilis — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 125.
Huia versabilis — 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 versabilis — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13. by implication.
Bamburana versabilis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35. See comment under Ranidae record.
English Names
Kwangsi Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).
Bamboo Leaf Odorous Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 190).
Bamboo-leaf Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 322).
Distribution
Southeastern China, from southern Anhui Jiangxi, and northern Guangdong west to Guizhou.
Comment
Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, Rana (Odorrana) andersonii group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. Related to Rana sanguinea according to the original publication. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 190-191, provided a brief account, map, and figure (as including Rana nasuta and Rana exiliversabilis, both subsequently described from Fujian and Hainan). Li, Ye, and Fei, 2001, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 26: 593-600, reported on morphometric and biochemical variation across geography and suggested that this nominal species is composed at least three species represented by their samples from: 1) Guanxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, and Anhui (Qimen); 2) Fujian, Zhejiang, and Anhui (Huangshan) and 3) Hainan I. These populations were subsequently named as Odorrana exiliversabilis and Odorrana nasuta by Fei, Ye, and Li, 2001, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 26: 601-607. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 78-79, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 101, provided an account (as Odorrana versabilis) for Guangxi. Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528-534, placed this in their Odorrana livida group. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1207-1211, provided an account, figures, and map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 322-323, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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