Nanorana hazarensis (Dubois and Khan, 1979)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Nanorana > Species: Nanorana hazarensis

Rana (Paa) hazarensis Dubois and Khan, 1979, J. Herpetol., 13: 403. Holotype: MNHNP 1978.3056, by original designation. Type locality: "near Datta, northern Pakistan (Manshera District, Hazera Division, 34° 15′ N 73° 15′ E, elevation about 1200 m)".

Rana barmoachensis Khan and Tasnim, 1989, J. Herpetol., 23: 419. Holotype: USNM 257534, by original designation. Type locality: "Barmoach, Goi Madan, District Kotli, Azad Kashmir, lat. 33° 30′ N, long. 74° E, elevation 1493 m", Pakistan. Synonymy by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 339. 

Paa (Paa) hazarensisDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320.

Paa barmoachensis — Khan, 2002, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 37: 161.

Nanorana hazarensisChen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239, by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 367.

Nanorana barmoachensis — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239, by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 367.

Allopaa hazarensisOhler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 780.

Nanorana (Chaparana) hazarensis — Tang, Liu, and Yu, 2023, Animals, 13(3427): 9

English Names

Kashmir Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).

Hazara Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 11).

Hazara Torrent Frog (Khan, 2004, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 39: 46).

Barmoach Frog (Allopaa barmoachesisChanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 89; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 11).

Kashmir Torrent Frog (Allopaa barmoachesis: Khan, 2002, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 37: 161).

Barmoach Paa Frog (Allopaa barmoachensisDinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 3).

Hazara Paa Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 3).

Distribution

Southern face of the western Himalayas in northern Pakistan; expected in adjacent Kashmir, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Pakistan

Likely/Controversially Present: India

Endemic: Pakistan

Comment

Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 151, provided range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. See brief account (as Rana barmoachensis) by Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 89. Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 339, considered (on the basis of examination of the holotype) Nanorana barmochensis to be synonymous with Nanorana hazarensis (as Paa), but subsequent authors (e.g., Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 89; Khan, 2004, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 39: 45–47)  regarded the two as distinct. Dubois, 2023, Alytes, 39–40: 160–184, subsequently made a strong case for their synonymy.  Khan, 2006, Amph. Rept. Pakistan: 62–63, provided an account (as Nanorana barmoachenss) for Pakistan. Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 780, reiterated that having looked at the type of Rana barmoachensis they believe it to be conspecific with Allopaa hazarensis. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions of varying levels of completeness in the literature. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted one brief larval description in the literature (as Nanorana barmoachensis). Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 11, recorded the species to occur in Kashmir, India, but did not provide specific localities. Hofmann, Masroor, and Jablonski, 2021, ZooKeys, 1049: 67–77, described morphology, imaged, and provided molecular markers for larvae of the species, and demonstrated the paraphyly of Nanorana with respect to Allopaa, as did subsequently Akram, Rais, López-Hervas, Tarvin, Saeed, Bolnick, and Cannatella, 2021, Ecol. Evol., 11: 14175–14216, who also provided genetically-confirmed records from Rawalpindi District, Punjab Province, Pakistan. Rais, Ahmed, Sajjad, Akram, Saeed, Hamid, and Abid, 2021, ZooKeys, 1062: 157–175, included this species in an identification key to the amphibian species of Pakistan as well as providing a photograph. Hofmann, Schmidt, Masroor, Borkin, Litvinchuk, Rödder, Vershinin, and Jablonski, 2023, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 198: 319, provided a dot map for the species,  which suggests that records from India are based on misidentification. They also suggested that the synonymy of Allopaa barmoachensis with Allopaa hazarensis requires genetic confirmation. Reported from Dir region of northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, northern Pakistan by Majid, Azim, Nawaz, and Ud Din, 2023, Asian J. Res. Zool., 6: 56. 

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