Brachytarsophrys chuannanensis Fei, Ye, and Huang, 2001

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Brachytarsophrys > Species: Brachytarsophrys chuannanensis

Brachytarsophrys chuannanensis Fei, Ye, and Huang In Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 138. Holotype: CIB 98A0045, by original designation. Type locality: He Jiang, Zi Huai (105° 49′ E, 28° 48′ N), 850 m elevation, Sichuan, China.

Megophrys (Brachytarsophrys) chuannanensis — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 754. 

Brachytarsophrys chuannanensis — Li, Zhang, Lyu, Wang, Li, Liu, Chen, Rao, Jin, Zhang, and Wang, 2020, Zool. Res., Kunming: 105–122; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 39. 

English Names

Chuanan Short-legged Toad (Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 138).

Southern Sichuan Short-legged Frog (Li, Zhang, Lyu, Wang, Li, Liu, Chen, Rao, Jin, Zhang, and Wang, 2020, Zool. Res., Kunming: 115).

Distribution

Extreme southeastern Sichuan (Hejiang and Junlian counties) and eastern Guizhou (Jiangkou County), China, 800 to 1400 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 337-341, provided an account and spot map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 178-179, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 206–207, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 724–725, provided an account, photograph, and dot map. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 72–74, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China. In the Brachytarsophrys feae group of Li, Zhang, Lyu, Wang, Li, Liu, Chen, Rao, Jin, Zhang, and Wang, 2020, Zool. Res., Kunming: 105–122, and.

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