Chrysopaa, Ohler & Dubois, 2006

Ohler, Annemarie & Dubois, Alain, 2006, Phylogenetic relationships and generic taxonomy of the tribe Paini (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae, Dicroglossinae), with diagnoses of two new genera, Zoosystema 28 (3), pp. 769-784 : 780-782

Chrysopaa n. gen.

TYPE SPECIES. — Rana sternosignata Murray, 1885: 120 .

DIAGNOSIS. — Genus distinguished from all other genera of Paini by the following combination of characters: 1) first finger as long as second; 2) extremities of fingers and toes blunt; 3) hind legs short, tibia shorter than half of snout-vent length; 4) a feeble tarsal fold present; 5) webbing complete; 6) flap of skin along external side of toe V extending proximally beyond first subarticular tubercle of toe but not reaching basis of metatarsus; 7) mid-dorsal chevron absent; 8) breeding males with enlarged forearm, with black nuptial spines scattered on dorsal part of prepollex and fingers I and II, with a plate of very small sized black spines on each side of breast, with internal vocal sacs; 9) intersexuality rather frequent (adult females with blackish spines on prepollex and fingers I and II); and 10) tadpoles with a keratodont formula of 7/3.

INCLUDED SPECIES. — Chrysopaa sternosignata ( Murray, 1885) n. comb.

DISTRIBUTION. — Afghanistan and Pakistan.

ETYMOLOGY OF GENERIC NAME. — From the Greek chrysos, “gold”, and from the generic name Paa Dubois, 1975 (from the Tamang name paa, “frog”). This name refers to the presence of golden flacks on the body of numerous specimens of this species in life.

A NEW WORKING TAXONOMY FOR THE PAINI

For the reasons discussed above, we here propose to exclude the Vietnamese species Annandia delacouri ( Angel, 1928) (synonym: Rana microlineata Bourret, 1937 ) from the tribe Paini , and to refer it to the tribe Limnonectini Dubois, 1992 of the subfamily Dicroglossinae Anderson, 1871 . On the other hand, we follow Jiang & Zhou (2005) to include the genus Nanorana in the Paini . As a result, the new working taxonomy of the tribe Paini is as follows. Some of the specific names in the list below (i.e. Rana sikimensis Jerdon, 1870 ; R. gammii Anderson, 1871 ; R.courtoisi Angel, 1922 ; R. tibetana Boulenger, 1917 ) will be discussed in more details elsewhere (Dubois & Ohler in prep. a-c). For all other species, information is available in various published works (e.g., Dubois 1992, 2002; Wu & Zhao 1995; Fei 1999; Inger et al. 1999; Ohler et al. 2000; Dubois & Ohler 2001; Chen & Jiang 2002; Chen et al. 2002).

Family RANIDAE Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1814 Subfamily DICROGLOSSINAE Anderson, 1871 Tribe PAINI Dubois, 1992 Genus Allopaa n. gen. Species: Allopaa hazarensis (Dubois & Khan, 1979) n. comb. Genus Chaparana Bourret, 1939 Subgenus Chaparana Bourret, 1939 Species : Chaparana (Chaparana) aenea (Smith, 1922) ; Chaparana (Chaparana) gammii

(Anderson, 1871); Chaparana (Chaparana)

Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Paini ( Amphibia, Anura )

unculuanus (Liu, Hu & Yang, 1960)

Subgenus Paa Dubois, 1975

Species: Chaparana (Paa) annandalii (Boulenger, 1920) ; Chaparana (Paa) arnoldi ( Dubois, 1976) ; Chaparana (Paa) blanfordii (Boulenger, 1882) ; Chaparana (Paa) chayuensis (Ye, 1977) ; Chaparana (Paa) conaensis (Fei & Huang, 1981) ; Chaparana (Paa) ercepeae (Dubois, 1974) ; Chaparana (Paa) liebigii (Günther, 1860) ; Chaparana (Paa) maculosa (Liu, Hu & Yang, 1960) ; Chaparana (Paa) medogensis (Fei & Ye, 1999) ; Chaparana (Paa) minica ( Dubois, 1976) ; Chaparana (Paa) mokokchungensis (Das & Chanda, 2000) ; Chaparana (Paa) polunini (Smith, 1951) ; Chaparana (Paa) rarica (Dubois, Matsui & Ohler, 2001) ; Chaparana (Paa) rostandi (Dubois, 1974) ; Chaparana (Paa) sikimensis (Jerdon, 1870) ; Chaparana (Paa) taihangnica ( Chen & Jiang, 2002) ; Chaparana (Paa) vicina (Stoliczka, 1872)

Genus Chrysopaa n. gen.

Species: Chrysopaa sternosignata ( Murray, 1885) n. comb.

Genus Gynandropaa Dubois, 1992

Subgenus Feirana Dubois, 1992

Species: Gynandropaa (Feirana) quadranus (Liu, Hu & Yang, 1960)

Subgenus Gynandropaa Dubois, 1992 Species : Gynandropaa (Gynandropaa) bourreti ( Dubois, 1987) ; Gynandropaa (Gynandropaa) feae (Boulenger, 1887) ; Gynandropaa (Gynandropaa) liui ( Dubois, 1987) ; Gynandropaa (Gynandropaa) sichuanensis ( Dubois, 1987) ; Gynandropaa (Gynandropaa) yunnanensis (Anderson, 1878)

Genus Nanorana Günther, 1896

Subgenus Altirana Stejneger, 1927 Species: Nanorana (Altirana) parkeri (Stejneger, 1927)

Subgenus Nanorana Günther, 1896 Species : Nanorana (Nanorana) pleskei Günther, 1896 ; Nanorana (Nanorana) ventripunctata Fei & Huang, 1985

Genus Quasipaa Dubois, 1992

Species: Quasipaa boulengeri (Günther, 1889) ; Quasipaa courtoisi (Angel, 1922) ; Quasipaa exilispinosa (Liu & Hu, 1975) ; Quasipaa fasciculispina (Inger, 1970) ; Quasipaa jiulongensis (Huang & Liu, 1985) ; Quasipaa robertingeri ( Wu & Zhao, 1995) ; Quasipaa shini (Ahl, 1930) ; Quasipaa spinosa (David, 1875) ; Quasipaa tibetana (Boulenger, 1917) ; Quasipaa verrucospinosa ( Bourret, 1937) ;

Quasipaa yei ( Chen, Qu & Jiang, 2002)

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