Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Ixalus tuberculatus Anderson, 1879 "1878", Anat. Zool. Res.: 845. Holotype: Presumably originally deposited in the ZSIC, presumed lost by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 38. Type locality: "on leval marshy flats on the banks of the Nampoung in the centre of the Kakhyen Hills", Myanmar. Secondary homonym of Polypedates tuberculatus Anderson, 1871.

Rhacophorus andersoni Ahl, 1927, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1927: 36. Replacement name for Ixalus tuberculatus.

Rhacophorus (Philautus) andersoni — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 53, 67.

Philautus tuberculatus — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 92. Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 178.

Philautus andersonii — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 452. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Rhacophorus (Philautus) andersoni — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 452.

Philautus andersoni — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 452. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 526.

Philautus (Philautus) tuberculatus — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 28. See comment.

Aquixalus tuberculatus — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 714. See comment under Philautus.

Theloderma andersoni — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 520.

English Names

Anderson's Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 70).

Anderson's Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 93; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 70).

Distribution

Northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya. Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland), northern Myanmar, southeastern Xizang (= Tibet) and Yunnan (China).

Comment

See account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 452-453. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 260-261, provided a brief account (under Philautus tuberculatus), map (excluding Yunnan), and figure. See Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 28, for a discussion of nomenclature and their interpretation of Article 59.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999). Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 147-148, and Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 308, provided a brief report for Arunachal Pradesh. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 714-717, provided an account (as Aquixalus tuberculatus) and a spot map, and implied its inclusion in what is now referred to as Theloderma. Sen and Mathew, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 285: 126, provided a specific record for Nagaland, northeastern India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 94-95, provided a brief characterization and a photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 433, provided a brief account for China (as Aquixalus tuberculatus). Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 70-71, provided an account (as Philautus andersoni) for Xizang, China.

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