Boulenophrys shimentaina (Lyu, Liu, and Wang, 2020)

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

Megophrys (Panophrys) shimentaina Lyu, Liu, and Wang in Lyu, Li, Zeng, Zhao, Liu, Guo, and Wang, 2020, ZooKeys, 942: 122. Holotype: SYS a004710, by original designation. Type locality: "Shimentai Nature Reserve (24.4095N, 113.1095E; ca 370 m a.s.l.), Yingde City, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, PR China". http://zoobank.org/E9F8A869-8923-4C0F-8750-181EE0843A07

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

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

English Names

Shimentai Horned Toad (original publication). 

Distribution

Shimentai Nature Reserve, Luokeng Nature Reserve, and Nanling Nature Reserve in northern Guangdong, and Mangshan Nature Reserve in southernmost Hunan, China, at elevations of 210–1 200 m

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

 Qian, Li, Chen, Li, and Yang, 2023, ZooKeys, 1139: 1–32, described larval morphology from Yizhang County, northern Guangdong Province, southern China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 31, who provided a brief account as Megophrys palpebralespinosa; this reidentified as Boulenophrys shimentaina by Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 420, who provided an account (p 438). Shang, Luo, Qian, Gao, Li, Deng, and Yang, 2023, Life Sci. Res., 27: 349–360, discussed the taxonomic status, comparative morphology, and molecular markers for a population from the Mangshan National Nature Reserve, Hunan, China.

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