Scutiger bhutanensis Delorme and Dubois, 2001

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Scutiger > Species: Scutiger bhutanensis

Scutiger (Aelurophryne) bhutanensis Delorme and Dubois, 2001, Alytes, 19: 143. Holotype: NHMB 17551, by original designation. Type locality: "Bhutan".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the imprecise type locality, "Bhutan", without additional information.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bhutan

Endemic: Bhutan

Comment

In the Scutiger glandulatus group, most similar to Scutiger tuberculatus, according to the original publication. See Khatiwada, Shu, Subedi, Wang, Ohler, Cannatella, Xie, and Jiang, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 139–157, for comment on morphology. 

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