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Rana sauteri Boulenger, 1909

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

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Rana sauteri Boulenger, 1909, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 4: 493. Syntypes: BMNH (5 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Kanshirei Village, altitude about 2000 feet ", Taiwan, China.

Rana (Hylorana) sauteri — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 124.

Rana (Hylarana) sauteri — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.

Pseudorana sauteri sauteri — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 138. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 233.

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

Amolops (Pseudoamolops) sauteri — Jiang, Fei, Ye, Zeng, Zhen, Xie, and Chen, 1997, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 6-7: 74.

Rana multidenticulata Chou and Lin, 1997, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 36: 222-229. Holotype: NMNS 2802, by original designation. Type locality: "Dayuling, Taichung Co[unty]., Taiwan (2560 m, 24 11 02 N, 121 18 17 E)". Synonymy by Hsu, Lin, Wu, and Tsai, 2011, Herpetol. J., 21: 169.

Rana multidentata — Glaw, Kohler, Lötters, and Vences, 1998, Elaphe, 6: xxii. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Pseudoamolops sauteri — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zool. Sinica, 46: 23, 25.

Pseudoamolops multidenticulatus — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zool. Sinica, 46: 23, 25.

Rana multidenticulata — 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.

Rana sauteri — 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. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13.

English Names

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

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

Sauter's Brown Frog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 84).

Taiwan Pseudotorrent Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 393).

Multidenticulate Pseudotorrent Frog (Rana multidentata [no longer recognized]: Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 392).

Distribution

Mountains and hills of Taiwan, China, 170-500 m elevation.

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