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Odorrana wuchuanensis (Xu, 1983)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Odorrana

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Rana wuchuanensis Xu In Wu, Xu, Dong, Li, and Liu, 1983, Acta Zool. Sinica, 29: 66. Holotype: Dept. Biol., Zunyi Medical College 792238, by original designation. Type locality: "Baicun, Wuchuan County, Guizhou [Province], altitude 720 m", China.

Odorrana wuchanensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 150. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Rana (Hylarana) wuchuanensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329.

Odorrana wuchuanensis — Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 262. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 192.

Odorrana (Odorrana) wuchuanensis — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126.

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

English Names

Wuchuan Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).

Wuchuan Odorous Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 192).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Baicun, Wuchuan County) in Guizhou, China, ca. 700 m elevation.

Comment

Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, Rana (Odorrana) andersonii group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. Related to Rana kuangwuensis, according to the original publication. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 192-193, provided a brief account, map, and figure. See comment under Rana kuangwuensis. In the Odorrana (Odorrana) margaretae group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana wuchuanensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 515. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1237-1241, 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.: 348, provided a brief account including photographs.

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