Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rhacophorus dennysi Blanford, 1881, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1881: 224. Holotype: ZRC according to the original publication; RMNH, according to Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 31, apparently in error. Type locality: "China; but the precise locality is unknown".

Rhacophorus exiguus Boettger, 1894, Ber. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 1894: 148. Types: Not stated; SMF 6987 is holotype according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 49. Type locality: "Chinhai bei Ningpo", China. Considered a subspecies of Rhacophorus schlegelii by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 194, but this is currently untenable. Synonymy by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 258; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 155.

Polypedates dennysi — Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 31. Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 184.

Hyla albotaeniata Vogt, 1927, Zool. Anz., 69: 287. Holotype: ZMB 24118, according to Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 462. Type locality: "Südchina". Probably Yunnan Province, according to Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 155. Synonymy by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 258;.

Polypedates feyi Chen, 1929, China J. Sci. Arts, Shanghai, 10: 198. Holotype: Sun Yat-sen Univ. Collection 1205, by original designation. Type locality: "Yaoshan [= Dayao Shan], Kwangsi [= Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region]", China. Synonymy by Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 563, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 258.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) exiguus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 113.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) dennysii — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 162. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

Rhacophorus nigropalmatus exiguus — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 201.

Rhacophorus nigropalmatus dennysii — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 201. Rhacophorus dennysi— Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 321; Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 272.

Polypedates dennysi — Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 98.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) dennysii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

English Names

Blanford's Whipping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113).

Large Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 276-277).

Denny's Whipping Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 36).

Distribution

Southern China west to Sichuan and Guizhou; Myanmar; northern and northeastern Vietnam east of the Red River (Cao Bang, Bac Thai, Lang Son, Vinh Phu, Hai Hung, and Ha Bac provinces, 200-1500 m elevation); Khammouan Province, Laos; Hainan I., China.

Comment

Discussed (as Rhacophorus dennysii) by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 258-261. In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) dennysii group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77 (see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group). See account by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 327; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 277-278 (who excluded China adjacent to Myanmar). Ohler, Marquis, Swan, and Grosjean, 2000, Herpetozoa, 13: 71-87, reported the Lao Cai Province, Vietnam record. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 204-205, provided a brief account and illustration (as Rhacophorus dennysi). Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 265-273, provided molecular and morphological evidence for retaining this species in Rhacophorus and not in Polypedates. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 85-86, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 124, provided an account for Guangxi. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 37, provided specific localities for Vietnam and (p. 150) a photograph. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 478, provided a specific locality for Laos. Orlov, Nguyen, and Ho, 2008, Russ. J. Herpetol., 15: 67-84, provided a photograph and a key to differentiate this species from others in Vietnam. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 789-795, provided an account and a spot map for China and assigned this species to their Rhacophorus maximus group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 454-455, provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 65-66, provided an account for Hainan.

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