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Nanorana conaensis (Fei and Huang, 1981)
Rana conaensis Fei and Huang In Huang and Fei, 1981, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 6: 212. Holotype: NWIPB 770532, by original designation. Type locality: "Mama of Cona Xian, Xizang [= Tibet], altitude 2,900" m, China. Rendered as "Mama, Chuona County, Tibet at the elevation 2900 m" by Huang, Lathrop, and Murphy, 1998, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 118: 6.
Rana (Paa) conaensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.
Paa (Paa) conaensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 157; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320.
Rana conaensis — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 141.
Nanorana conaensis — 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.
Chaparana (Paa) conaensis — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.
Nanorana (Paa) conaensis — Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2.
Maculopaa conaensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 26. See comment under Dicroglossidae.
English Names
Cona Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).
Cona Spiny Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 212; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 41).
Distribution
Known from the region of the type locality in southern Xizang, China, and in adjacent Bhutan (Haa District).
Comment
Closely related to Nanorana liebigii (as Rana), according to the original publication. Original publication translated into English by Huang, Lathrop, and Murphy, 1998, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 118. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 212-213, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1383-1387, provided an account (as Paa conaensis) for China, figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa liebigii group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 364, provided a brief account (as Paa conaensis) for China including photographs of specimens. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 41-42, provided an account (as Paa conaensis) for Xizang, China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 442-443, provided an account (as Maculopaa conaensis), photographs, and a range map for China. Wangyal, 2013, J. Threatened Taxa, 5: 4777, provided records from Haa District, Bhutan.
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