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Rhacophorus leucofasciatus Liu and Hu, 1962

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Rhacophorus

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Rhacophorus leucofasciatus Liu and Hu, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14 (Supplement): 95, 104. Holotype: CIB 602417, by original designation. Type locality: "Lo-dan [= Luodan], Yaoshan [=Dayao Shan], altitude 800 m, Kwangsi [= Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region]", China.

English Names

White-striped Treefrog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 463).

Distribution

Isolated localities in southern and northeastern Guangxi and eastern Guizhou, China.

Comment

Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 799-802, provided an account and a spot map, resurrected this species from the synonymy of Rhacophorus dennysi, where it had been placed by Zhao in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 545, and Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 155, and assigned this species to their Rhacophorus maximus group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 463, provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens.

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