Boulenophrys obesa (Wang, Li, and Zhao, 2014)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Boulenophrys > Species: Boulenophrys obesa

Megophrys obesa Wang, Li, and Zhao in Li, Jin, Zhao, Liu, Wang, and Pang, 2014, Zootaxa, 3795: 453. Holotype. SYS a002275, by original designation. Type locality: "Heishiding Nature Reserve . . . (23°28′27″ N, 111°53′53″ E; 399.2 m a.s.l.), Fengkai County, Guangdong Province, China". Zoobank publication registration: 59C8EDD8-DF54-43A7-987B-691395B78586

Xenophrys obesa — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 106: 41.

Megophrys (Panophrys) obesa — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755. 

Panophrys obesa — Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 13. 

Boulenophrys obesa — Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 404.

English Names

Heishiding Horned Toad (Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 436). 

Distribution

Known only from lowland forest near the type locality in the Heishiding Nature Reserve, Fengkai County, Guangdong, China, 399 to 434 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Suggested to be closely related to Megophrys cheni in the original publication. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 436, provided an account and placed it in their Borneophrys boettgeri group.  

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