Rana asiatica Bedriaga, 1898

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Rana > Species: Rana asiatica

Rana temporaria var. asiatica Bedriaga, 1898, Wissenschaft. Result. Przewalski Cent. Asien Reisen, 3(1): 21, 23. Syntypes: Not stated; ZISP 928-930, 1056, 1063, 1257, and 1501 (22 specimens) considered syntypes by XXX; Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1000, reported only ZISP 1056, 1063, and 1257 (five specimens) as syntypes. Type locality: "Schan-shu-tschun (Prov. Kuku-Nor) und auf dem Tscha-Dschi bei Sini"; given as "Kansu; Ordos; Mongolia" by Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 28; given as "Kungess and Upper Ili River, Tien-shan, Xinjiang-Uigur Autonomous Region, China, and Ordos (erroneous), Inner Mongolia, and Bagagorgi River, tributary of the upper Chuanche River (Bailong Jiang?), Gansu Province, China", by Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 349.

Rana bachtyana Kashchenko, 1909, Annu. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 14: 129. Types: ZISP. Type locality: Bachty, Semiryetchensk, Siberia, Russia [from the Russian]. Synonymy by Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 63; Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 19; Orlova, Bakharev, and Borkin, 1977, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 74: 86.

Rana asiatica — Nikolskii, 1914 "1912", Trudy Troitskosavsko-Kiakht. Otd. Obstsch., 15: 33; Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 19.

Rana arvalis var. asiatica — Fejérváry, 1919, Ann. Hist. Nat. Mus. Natl. Hungarici, 17: 181.

Rana asiatica asiatica — Terentjev, 1923, Zool. Anz., 56: 174, by implication.

Rana asiatica balchaschensis Terentjev, 1923, Zool. Anz., 56: 174. Holotype: ZMM A-464. Type locality: "Lac. Balchasch, Insula Tas-Aral [= Lake Balkhash, Tasaral Island (Tadaral, Taiaral)]", Dzhezkazgan District, Kazakhstan. Synonymy by Orlova, Bakharev, and Borkin, 1977, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 74: 86

Rana asiatica issikkulensis Kaschkarov, 1923, Trans. Sci. Soc. Turkestan., Tashkent, 1: 221. Syntypes: 8 specimens, by original designation, deposition not stated. Type locality: Right bank of the Kutemaldinka River and near the station, enrivons of Rybachie Settlement, northwestern shore of Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan. Synonymy by Orlova, Bakharev, and Borkin, 1977, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 74: 86; Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 64. Nomen nudum according to Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 349.

Rana amurensis balchaschensis — Terentjev and Chernov, 1936, Brief Guide Amph. Rept. USSR: 20.

Rana chensinensis balchaschensis — Terentjev and Chernov, 1940, Kratikii Opredelitel' Presmyka iushchisksia i Zemnovodnykh CCCP: 44.

Rana amurensis asiatica — Orlova, Bakharev, and Borkin, 1977, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 74: 81–103.

Rana (Rana) asiatica — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41, by implication; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333; Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.

Rana (Laurasiarana) asiatica — Hillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 311, by implication; see Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 317–330, and Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 331–338, for discussion.

English Names

Asian Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Wood Frog (Liu, 1931, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 5: 53; Boring, Liu, and Chou, 1932, Handb. N. China, Amph. Rept.: 33).

Central Asian Frog (Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 349).

Central Asian Brown Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 154).

Distribution

Southern Kazakhstan (north to Lake Balkhash) through Kyrgyzstan to central Xinjiang (China).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

Comment

In the Section Rana, subgenus Rana, Rana temporaria group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333. In the Rana chensinensis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 107. Often confused with Rana amurensis and Rana chensinensis according to Borkin, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 482. Removed from the synonymy of Rana temporaria chensenensis (Rana chensenensis of this list) by : Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41; by implication, and Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333, where it had been placed by Pope and Boring, 1940, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 15: 57. See accounts by Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 349–354; Kuzmin, 2013, Amph. Former Soviet Union, Ed. 2: 212–215 (for the former USSR), and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 154–155. Regarded as close to Rana amurensis by Xie, Fei, and Ye, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 74–80. Sumida, Ueda, and Nishioka, 2003, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 20: 567–580, reported on molecular phylogenetic relationships and reproductive incompatability of this species with other brown frogs in East Asia. Li, Lu, and Li, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 268–270, provided a distribution map for China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1000–1004, provided an account for China and included it in their Rana asiatica group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 262–263, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 296, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. 

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