Odorrana bacboensis (Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Odorrana > Species: Odorrana bacboensis

Rana (Odorrana) bacboensis Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 32. Holotype: ROM 29534, by original designation. Type locality: "Khe Moi River, approximately 24 km west of Con Cuong village, Con Cuong District, Nghe An Province, Vietnam (18° 56′ 30″ N, 104° 48′ 35″ E)".

Odorrana bacboensisChen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication; Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 54.

Huia bacboensisFrost, 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: 368.

English Names

Tonkin Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 26).

Tonkin Odorous Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 48). 

Distribution

Cascades in forested montane river systems across northern Vietnam (Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang, Lao Cai, Cao Bang, Bac Giang, and Nghe An provinces) as well as Ha Tinh Provincie, central Vietnam, and Bainan Village, Napo County, Guangxi, and Hekou County, Yunnan, both in China adjacent to the Vietnamese border. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Vietnam

Comment

Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 110, provided the Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, record. Hecht, Pham, Nguyen, Nguyen, Bonkowski, and Ziegler, 2013, Biodiversity J., 4: 507–552, reported a record from Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, Bac Giang Province, northeastern Vietnam and discussed the range. Wang, Lau, Yang, Chen, Liu, Pang, and Liu, 2015, Zootaxa, 3999: 238, provided the records for China. Pham, An, Herbst, Bonkowski, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2017, Bonn Zool. Bull., 66: 37–53, provided records for Cao Bang Province, Vietnam, along with observations on morphology and natural history. Pham, An, Herbst, Bonkowski, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2017, Bonn Zool. Bull., 66: 37–53, provided records for Cao Bang Province, Vietnam, along with observations on morphology and natural history. Ziegler, Ong, Hoang, Pham, and Nguyen, 2022, Acad. J. Biol., 44: 114, referred their earlier record of Rana cf. schmakeri (Ziegler, 2002, Amph. Rept. Tieflandfeuchtwald–Schutzgebietes Vietnam: 1–342) from Ke Go Nature Reserve, Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam, to Odorrana bacboensis.  

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