Rhacophorus translineatus Wu, 1977

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Rhacophorus > Species: Rhacophorus translineatus

Rhacophorus translineatus Wu In Sichuan Institute of Biology Herpetology Department, 1977, Acta Zool. Sinica, 23: 59, 63. Holotype: CIB 73II0031, by original designation. Type locality: "Medo [= Medog County], Xizang [= Tibet], alt. 1500 m", China; given as "Motuo, Xizang (= Tibet), China" by Li, Chen, Li, Lv, and Wang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 131.

Rhacophorus (Leptomantis) translineatusDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 76.

Huangixalus translineatus — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 598. See comment in synonymy of Rhacophorus

English Names

Medog Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 64).

Cross-barred Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 270; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 120).

Translneate Tree Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 117; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15).

Distribution

Known from the type locality in eastern Tibet, China, as well as in southwestern Bhutan, and Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bhutan, China, People's Republic of, India

Comment

Not assigned to subgenus by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 270-272, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Bordoloi, Borah, Sarmah, and Sharma, 2002, Himalayan Biosph. Reserves, 4: 33-38, provided records for Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 782-786, provided an account and a spot map for China and assigned this species to their Rhacophorus verrucopus group. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 117-118, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 475, provided a brief account for China including photographs. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 64-65, provided an account for Tibet, China. Li, Chen, Li, Lv, and Wang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 134, provided photographs of the holotype. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 522–523, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 378–385, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. Lhendup and Koirala, 2021, J. Threatened Taxa, 13: 20078–20083, provided the first record from Bhutan, from Chhukha District.  

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