Quasipaa boulengeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Dicroglossidae
Subfamilia: Dicroglossinae
Genus: Quasipaa
Species: Quasipaa boulengeri

Name

Quasipaa boulengeri (Günther, 1889)

• Lectotype: BMNH 1947.2.3.86 (formerly 1889.6.25.24). [designated by Dubois (1987: 44)]
• Type locality: “Ichang [=Yicheng]”, Hubei, China.
• Paralectotype: BMNH 1947.2.3.85 (formerly 1889.6.25.23), same data as the lectotype.

Combinations

• Rana Boulengeri Günther, 1889: 222 [original combination]
• Rana (Paa) boulengeri — Dubois, 1975: 324
• Rana boulengeri — Inger, Zhao, Shaffer & Wu, 1990: 9
• Paa (Paa) boulengeri — Fei, Ye & Huang, 1990: 156
• Paa (Quasipaa) boulengeri — Dubois, 1992: 320
• Nanorana boulengeri — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho & Somorjai, 2005: 239
• Quasipaa boulengeri — Jiang, Dubois, Ohler, Tillier, Chen, Xie & Stöck, 2005: 358

Synonyms

• Rana tibetana Boulenger, 1917: 414
  • Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.3.63 (formerly 1911.12.13.2).
  • Type locality: “Yin tsin wau [=Yintsinwan], Wassu State [= Yin Xiu Wan], Tibet”, now in part of Sichuan, China.

References

Primary references

• Günther, A. 1889. Third contribution to our knowledge of the reptiles and fishes from the upper Yangtsze-Kiang. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 6 4(24): 218–229. BHL Reference page. 
• Jiang, J.-P., Dubois, A., Ohler, A., Tillier, A., Chen, X.-H., Xie, F. & Stöck, M. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of the tribe Paini (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) based on partial sequences of mitochondrial 12s and 16s rRNA genes. Zoological Science 22(3): 353–362. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.22.353 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Fei, L. & C.-y. Ye. 2001. The Color Handbook of the Amphibians of Sichuan. Chengdu, Sichuan, China: Sichuan Forestry Department, Sichuan Association of Wildlife Conservation, and Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. [In Chinese]

Links

• Lau, M,W.N., Yuan, Z.-G., Zhao, R.-M. & Chan, B. 2004. IUCN: Quasipaa boulengeri  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58420A11778088. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58420A11778088.en. Accessed on 03 November 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Boulenger's Spiny Frog