Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana sauteri var. johnsi Smith, 1921, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1921: 434. Syntypes: BMNH (6 specimens—formerly M. Smith 2638-41, 2644, 2657), by original designation. Type locality: "Sui Kat", Langbian Plateau, Vietnam. Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 14.

Hylarana sauteri johnsi — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 59.

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

Pseudorana johnsi — Jiang, Fei, Ye, Zeng, Zhen, Xie, and Chen, 1997, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 6-7: 74. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 190; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 115; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 37. See comment under Ranidae record.

Rana johnsi — Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 14. 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

John's Groove-toed Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 170).

Johns's Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 142).

Johns' Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 28).

Distribution

Isolated populations in Vietnam and Guangxi and western Hainan, China; Khammouan Province, Laos; eastern hilly Cambodia; north-central Thailand.

Comment

See brief account (as Rana sauteri) by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 321-324. Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 148-149, who suggested that the nominal subspecies (Rana sauteri johnsi in Vietnam and southern China, Rana sauteri sauteri in Taiwan) might be different species. Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 14, subsequently discussed the issue and made the change. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 170-171, provided a brief account (as Pseudorana sauteri johnsi), map, and figure. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 190, provided a brief account and illustration (as Pseudorana johnsi). Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 48, reported the species for the Annamite Mountains of Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 142-143, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 28, provided specific localities for Vietnam and (p. 149) a photograph. Stuart, Sok, and Neang, 2006, Raffles Bull. Zool., 54: 140, provided a record for Cambodia. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 477-478, provided specific localities for Laos. See comment under Pseudorana. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1106-1112, provided an account (as Pseudorana johnsi), figures, and map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 298-299, provided a brief account (as Pseudorana johnsi) including photographs of specimens and habitat. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 104-105, provided an account for Hainan.

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