Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rhacophorus braueri Vogt, 1911, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1911: 180. Holotype: ZMB. Type locality: "Formosa" (= Taiwan), China.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) baueri — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 137.

Polypedates baueri — Kuraishi, Matsui, Ota, and Chen, 2011, Zootaxa, 2744: 53-61.

English Names

White-lipped Treefrog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 42 [as Polypedates megacephalus]).

Java Treefrog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 42 [as Polypedates megacephalus; with taxonomic adjustment, this is now inappropriate, as the species does not occur in Java—DRF]).

Distribution

Taiwan, China.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Polypedates megacephalus by Kuraishi, Matsui, Ota, and Chen, 2011, Zootaxa, 2744: 53-61, where it had been placed by Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 30; Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 137; Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 178; and Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 156. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 42-43, provided a brief account (as Polypedates megacephalus) for Taiwan. Introduced populations from Okinawa (Japan) and Guam may be of this species rather than Polypedates megacephalus. Records of Polypedates megacephalus from Taiwan apply to this species.

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