Rhacophorus nigropunctatus Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962
Rhacophorus nigropunctatus Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14: 388. Holotype: CIB 590405, by original designation. Type locality: "Long-chu [Longjie], Weining, altitude 2,134 meters", western Guizhou, China.
Polypedates nigropunctatus — Jiang, Hu, and Zhao, 1987, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 6 (1): 34. Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 185; Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 28.
Rhacophorus nigropunctatus — Rao, Wilkinson, and Liu, 2006, Zootaxa, 1258: 17. by implication.
English Names
Weining Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).
Black-snouted Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 288).
Black-spotted Treefrog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 468).
Norhayati's Gliding Frog (original publication).
Distribution
Central and southwestern China: Anhui (Yuexi county), western Guizhou (Weining and Leishan counties), and western Yunnan (Longling and Pingbian counties), Hunan (Sangzhi and Chengbu counties), China, 600-2100 m elevation.
Comment
In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) reinwardtii group, according Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group. Considered to be a member of Polypedates by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 157, and Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 29. Related to Rhacophorus schlegelii, according to the original publication. M. Matsui in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 546, this to refer to Rhacophorus javanus. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 216-218, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 288-289, provided account (as Rhacophorus nigropunctatus). See comment under Polypedates dorsoviridis, with which this species may be conspecific. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 126-127. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 115-116, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Polypedates nigropunctatus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 635. Yu, Rao, Zhang, and Yang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 571-579, did not recover this species as monophyletic in a molecular analysis, suggesting that multiple species may be involved. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 857-861, provided an account, spot map, and considered this species a member of their Rhacophorus dugritei group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 468-469, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Li, Chen, Li, Lv, and Wang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 133, provided photographs of the holotype.
Confused with Rhacophorus reinwardtii prior to its naming according to the original publication.
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