Polypedates mutus (Smith, 1940)
Rhacophorus mutus Smith, 1940, Rec. Indian Mus., 42: 473. Syntypes: BMNH 1940.6.1.3-4, by original designation. Type locality: N'Chang Yang, northern Myanmar.
Polypedates mutus —Inger In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 541. Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 184; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 326.
Rhacophorus mutus — Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 64.
Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) mutus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.
English Names
Burmese Whipping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113).
Vocal Sacless Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 274).
Northern Treefrog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 152).
Distribution
Northern Myanmar; Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Hainan I., China; throughout Vietnam from the border of China to the northern reaches of the Annam mountains in Nghe An Province; northern Laos; uplands of non-peninsular Thailand.
Comment
In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Polypedates. Removed from the synonymy of Polypedates leucomystax by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 248-250. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 208-210; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 274-275, provided accounts. Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 36-38, provided an account for the Vietnam population. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 129, provided an account for Guangxi. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 96, reported the species to be in Laos. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 125-126. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 152-153, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 36, provided specific localities for Vietnam and (p. 150) a photograph. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 111, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 760-764, provided an account and a spot map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 448, provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 66-69, provided an account for Hainan.
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