Ranidae, Batsch, 1796

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo, Marta, García-París, Mario & Vörös, Judit, 2019, Amphibians And Reptiles From Zoltan Kaszab’S Expeditions To Mongolia Held At The Hungarian Natural History Museum, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 65 (2), pp. 143-166 : 147-148

Ranidae

Rana Linnaeus, 1758

Rana includes two species in Mongolia ( TERBISH et al. 2006): Rana chensinensis David, 1875 , restricted to a narrow zone in the extreme northeast (TER- BISH et al. 2006), and Rana amurensis Boulenger, 1886 , widely distributed over the north-central and northeastern steppes ( KUZMIN 1999). All samples of Rana examined from Kaszab’s expeditions correspond to R. amurensis .

According to KUZMIN (1999) the variability within R. amurensis is poorly known, and phylogeographic studies are needed to evaluate its geographic variability including populations of the subspecific taxon R. amurensis johanseni Kashchenko, 1902 (described as Rana muta johanseni).

There are four specimens within the material collected by Kaszab and 11 specimens collected by other researchers in Mongolia (see Fig. 4 and Appendix) .

Our results show Rana amurensis (ID 16) in Dariganga, Sükhbaatar, southeastern Mongolia, where it has not been previously recorded.