Liurana alpina

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: Ceratobatrachidae
Subfamilia: Liuraninae
Genus: Liurana
Species: Liurana alpina

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Liurana alpina Huang & Ye, 1997: 112

• Holotype: Chongqing Mus. Nat. Hist. 770611.
• Type locality: “Dayandong, Medog Xian, altitude 3100 m”, Xizang, China.

Combinations

• Ingerana alpina — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006: 366 [subsequent combination]
• Limnonectes (Taylorana) alpinus — Borah, Bordoloi, Purkayastha, Das, Dubois & Ohler, 2013: 39 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Huang, Y.-z. & Ye, C.-y. 1997. A new species of the genus Liurana (Amphibia: Ranidae) from Xizang, China. Cultum Herpetologica Sinica 6–7: 112–115.
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• Borah, M.M., Bordoloi, S., Purkayastha, J., Das, M., Dubois, A. & Ohler, A. 2013. Limnonectes (Taylorana) medogensis (Fei, Ye & Huang, 1997) from Arunachal Pradesh (India), and on the identity of some diminutive ranoid frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae, Occidozygidae). Herpetozoa 26: 39-48.

Additional references

• Yan, F., Jiang, K., Wang, K., Jin, J.-Q., Suwannapoom, C., Li, C., Vindum, J.V., Brown, R.M. & Che, J. 2016. The Australasian frog family Ceratobatrachidae in China, Myanmar and Thailand: discovery of a new Himalayan forest frog clade. Zoological Research 37(1): 7–14. DOI: 10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2016.1.7 Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Liurana alpina . Accessed on 29 May 2008.
• Fei, L., Wai, M. & Lau, N. 2004. IUCN: Liurana alpina  (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58317A11764566. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58317A11764566.en

Vernacular names

English: Dayandong Eastern Frog