The validity of Rana bannanica Rao & Yang, 1997 (Anura, Ranidae)

By

Liu, Shuo
Nguyen, Tan Van
Poyarkov, Nikolay A
Wang, Qiaoyan
Rao, Dingqi
Li, Song

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024-1-11

Original Publication

Herpetozoa

Volume

37

Pages

11--20

Subjects

16S , COI , CYTB , Hylarana milleti , resurrection , synonym , systematics , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e114263

 

Abstract

One specimen of frog was collected from Mohan Town, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, which is the type locality of Rana bannanica Rao & Yang, 1997, currently considered as a junior synonym of Hylarana milleti (Smith, 1921). This specimen well agrees with the original description of R. bannanica. In regard to morphology, R. bannanica and H. milleti are, indeed, very similar, but can still be distinguished from each other. Phylogenetic analysis, based on mitochondrial gene sequences, showed that this specimen and H. milleti are different species. Hence, we remove R. bannanica from the synonymy of H. milleti.