Boulenophrys acuta (Wang, Li, and Jin, 2014)

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

Megophrys acuta Wang, Li, and Jin in Li, Jin, Zhao, Liu, Wang, and Pang, 2014, Zootaxa, 3795: 453. Holotype. SYS a002267, by original designation. Type locality: "Heishiding Nature Reserve . . . (23°28′27″ N, 111°53′53″ E; 277.1 m a.s.l.), Fengkai County, Guangdong Province, China". Zoobank publication registration: 59C8EDD8-DF54-43A7-987B-691395B78586

Xenophrys acuta — 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) acuta — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755. 

Panophrys acutaLyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 12. 

Boulenophrys acuta — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 679 (by implication); Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 403, new combination. 

English Names

Fengkai Horned Toad (Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 423). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Heishiding Nature Reserve and neighboring Qixing Nature Reserve, Fengkai County, western Guangdong, China, 270 to 450 m elevation.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Suggested to be the sister taxon of Megophrys brachykolos in the original publication. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 423, provided an account and placed this species in their Boulenophrys boettgeri group. 

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