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New Replacement Name for Rana paradoxa Mocquard, 1890 with Designations of Lectotypes for Rana paradoxa and Rana conspicillata Günther

Update time: 11/19/2013   Author:

Fanged frogs, now called Limnonectes kuhlii, from Borneo are remotely related to true Javanese L. kuhlii. For future taxonomy of Bornean fanged frogs, we fix the nomenclatural status of two existing names, Rana conspicillata Günther, 1872 and Rana paradoxa Mocquard, 1890. Morphological comparison of the type-series revealed heterospecific relationships of the two species. For R. conspicillata, 

researchers designate BMNH 1947.2.29.20 as the lectotype, and for R. paradoxa, researchers also designate MNHN 1889.222 as the lectotype and propose a replacement name Limnonectes mocquardi, in order to stabilize their nomenclature.

This study entitled New Replacement Name for Rana paradoxa Mocquard, 1890 with Designations of Lectotypes for Rana paradoxa and Rana conspicillata Günther, 1872: Both Synonymized with Limnonectes kuhlii (Tschudi, 1838) (Dicroglossidae: Dicroglossinae) has been published in Asian Herpetological Research which issued by Chengdu Institute of Biology,Chinese Academy of Sciences.

 

 




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