Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Polypedates owstoni Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 149. Holotype: USNM 34333, by original designation and by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 71. Type locality: "Ishigaki shima, Yaeyama group, Riu Kiu Archipelago", Japan.

Polypedates schlegeli owstoni — Van Denburgh, 1912, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 3: 202.

Rhacophorus owstoni — Okada, 1931, Tailless Batr. Japan. Empire: 194.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) owstoni — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 153. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

Rhacophorus schlegelii owstoni — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 193.

Rhacophorus owstoni — Kuramoto and Utsunomiya, 1981, Japan. J. Herpetol., 9: 4.

English Names

Owston's Green Tree Frog (Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 157; Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 119).

Japanese Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).

Distribution

Ishigaki, and Iriomoto Is., Ryukyu Is., Japan.

Comment

In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) schlegelii group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group. Considered by some authors (e.g., Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 345) to be conspecific with Rhacophorus schlegelii. See comment under Rhacophorus viridis. Removed from the synonymy of Rhacophorus viridis by Kuramoto and Utsunomiya, 1981, Japan. J. Herpetol., 9: 4. Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 154-157, provided an account and suggested a close relationship to Rhacophorus moltrechti from Taiwan. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 119-121, provided an account, map, and photograph.

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