Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Philautus palpebralis Smith, 1924, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1924: 233. Holotype: BMNH (formerly M. Smith 2589, by original designation). Type locality: "Langbian Peaks, alt. 2000 m., S. Annam", Vietnam.

Rhacophorus (Chirixalus) palpebralis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 56, 105.

Chirixalus palpebralis — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 60. Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 23; Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 44.

Philautus palpebralis — Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 274. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 531; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 65; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 176; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 154.

Feihyla palpebralis — 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: 246.

Chiromantis palpebralis — Grosjean, Delorme, Dubois, and Ohler, 2008, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 46: 174.

Aquixalus palpebralis — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 699. See comment under Philautus.

English Names

Vietnamese Bubble-nest Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 33).

Distribution

Yunnan (Hekou and Pingbian counties) and extreme western Guizhou, China, south to Tam Dao, north of Hanoi, in Vietnam; expected in intervening northern Vietnam and adjacent Laos.

Comment

See account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 474-475, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 275-277 (as Philautus palpebralis). Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 193-195, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 256-257, provided accounts (as Philautus palpebralis). See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 23-24. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 104-105, provided a brief account (as Philautus palpebralis) for Yunnan, China. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Chirixalus palpebralis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 634. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 699-703, provided an account (as Aquixalus palpebralis) for China and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 437, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus palpebralis) including photographs of specimens.

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