Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana weiningensis Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14: 387. Holotype: CIB 590455, by original designation. Type locality: "Tuo-luo-he of Long-chu [= Tuo-luo-he of Long-jie], Weining [County], altitude 1,700 m, Kweichow [= Guizhou Province]", China.

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

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

Pseudorana weiningensis — 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: 3; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 37. See comment under Ranidae record.

Rana weiningensis — 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

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

Weining Groove-toed Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 170).

Distribution

Western Guizhou, southern Sichuan, and northern Yunnan, China.

Comment

Related to Rana varians, according to the original publication. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 170-171, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 192, provided a brief account and illustration (as Pseudorana weiningensis). Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 75-, provided a brief account (as Rana weiningensis) for Yunnan, China. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana weiningensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 514. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1116-1121, provided an account, figures, and map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 300-301, provided a brief account including photographs.

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