Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Chirixalus idiootocus Kuramoto and Wang, 1987, Copeia, 1987: 932. Holotype: NTUMA 1010, by original designation. Type locality: "in a rain pool near Sanshengkong (a temple, altitude ca. 500 m) in the southern slope of Mount Mientien-Shan, Taipei, Taiwan", China.

Philautus idiootocus — Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 252.

Chirixalus idiootocus — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 57.

Kurixalus idiootocus — Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 272. 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: 245.

Aquixalus (Aquixalus) idiootocus — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 74: 166.

Aquixalus idiootocus — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 671.

English Names

Temple Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111; Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 40).

Mientien Small Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 252).

Mientien Treefrog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 40).

Distribution

Low elevations in Taiwan, China.

Comment

Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 252-253, provided a brief account (as Philautus idootocus), figure, and map. Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 57-58, discussed with this species cannot be in Philautus and, although they transferred it back to Chirixalus, noted that the definition of Chirixalus was so poorly resolved that this species might ultimately have to be moved to a distinct genus, a position formalized by Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 272. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 40-41, provided a brief account for Taiwan (as Chirixalus idiootocus). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 671-676, provided an account (as Aquixalus idiootocus) and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 428-429, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus idiootocus) for China including photographs of specimens and habitat.

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