Odorrana hejiangensis ( Deng & Yu, 1992 )

Kilunda, Felista Kasyoka, Yang, Shen-Pin, Nguyen, Luan Thanh, Le, Manh Van, Suwannapoom, Chatmongkon, Stuart, Bryan L., Nguyen, Sang Ngoc, Zuo, An-Ru, Zhang, Ding-Can, Duan, Zheng-Pan, Duan, Pei-Wen, Yu, Zhong-Bin, Wu, Yun-He & Che, Jing, 2025, Unveiling hidden diversity in Odorrana (Anura, Ranidae) with description of a new species from Yingjiang, China and the first national records of Odorrana heatwolei in Thailand and Vietnam, Zoosystematics and Evolution 101 (4), pp. 2337-2356 : 2337-2356

Odorrana hejiangensis ( Deng & Yu, 1992)

Chresonymy.

Rana hejiangensis Deng & Yu, 1992 .

Huia hejiangensis — Fei & Ye, 2001; Frost et al. 2006.

Odorrana hejiangensis — Che et al. 2007.

Odorrana ( Odorrana) nanjiangensis Fei, Ye, Xie & Jiang, 2007 .

Odorrana nanjiangensis — Zhu 2016; Zhang et al. 2021; Dufresnes and Litvinchuk 2022.

Common name.

Hejiang Odorous Frog ( Fei 1999).

Remarks.

Odorrana hejiangensis was originally described from Shunyangxi, Hejiang County, Sichuan Province, China, with its known distribution extending across northern Guizhou and western Guangxi Provinces, China ( Frost 2025). Our analyses placed the topotypic sequences of O. hejiangensis and O. nanjiangensis within the same strongly supported subclade ( BPP = 1; BS = 100) (see clade B). The topotype sequence of O. nanjiangensis (accession number KF 185042.1; voucher HNNU 1007 -291) was collected from Nanjiang, Sichuan Province, China, whereas the O. hejiangensis topotype sequence (accession number KF 185052 ; voucher HNNU 1007 -202) was collected from Hejiang, Sichuan Province, China, as deposited by Chen et al. (2013). Previous studies, including Dufresnes and Litvinchuk (2022), reported nearly identical mitochondrial sequences between these two species, with a genetic distance of only 0.1 %. While the possibility of misidentification for the sole available 16 S representative sequence of O. nanjiangensis cannot be entirely ruled out, we hypothesise that these taxa are conspecific. Consequently, we propose synonymising O. nanjiangensis with the senior synonym O. hejiangensis , which holds taxonomic priority. However, to definitively resolve this issue, a thorough examination of respective voucher specimens is necessary to identify any diagnostic characters between the two species.