Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana sangzhiensis Shen, 1986, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 5 (4): 290. Holotype: HNNU 82-819, by original designation. Type locality: "Tianping Mountain, Sangzhi [County], Hunan [Province]; altitude 1350 m", China.

Pseudorana sangzhiensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 137. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 233.

Rana (Pseudorana) sangzhiensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333.

Pseudorana sangzhiensis — Jiang, Fei, Ye, Zeng, Zhen, Xie, and Chen, 1997, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 6-7: 74. ; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 115; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 37. See comment under Ranidae record.

Rana sangzhiensis — 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: 370.

English Names

Sangzhi Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).

Sanzhi Groove-toed Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 168).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the mountains of northwestern Hunan, China.

Comment

Related to Rana weiningensis according to original publication. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 168-169, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1112-1116, provided an account, figures, and map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 298-299, provided a brief account including photographs.

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