Xenophrys periosa (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Xenophrys > Species: Xenophrys periosa

Megophrys (Xenophrys) periosa Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4523: 59. Holotype: BNHS 6055, by original designation. Type locality: "Pangin town (28°12′33.96″N, 94°59′10.02″E, 450 m asl.), East Siang district [now Siang District], Arunachal Pradesh state, Northeast India"; given by Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 410, as "Medog County (N28° 12′ 33.96 ″, E 94° 59′10.02″; 450 m a.s.l.), Nyingchi, Xizang, China", presumably reflecting the claim by China that this real estate belongs to China. Zoobanck publication registration: 96B7B9E3-9F49-4983-A46C-D29CD6B2EE49 

Xenophrys periosaLyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 39.

English Names

Giant Himalayan Horned Frog (original publication; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 6). 

Giant Himalayan Eye-spined Toadfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 29). 

Distribution

Pangin, Along, and Sessa in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India, between 260 and 1429 m elevation; Kachin, northern Myanmar; northwestern Yunnan (Gongshan County) and Xizang (Medog and Cona counties), China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, India, Myanmar

Comment

In the Megophrys major complex according to the original publication. See comment under Megophrys major for older literature that may refer in part to this species. Saikia, Sinha, Shabnam, and Dinesh, 2021, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 12: 219–224, discussed morphological variation, the range, and provided a 16S mtDNA tree that suggests that this species is the sister of Xenophrys majorZug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 29, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar, but did not cite a particular locality for that country. Shi, Wang, Zhu, Fu, Jiang, Li, and Jiang, 2020, Chinese J. Zool., 55: 730–740, reported the species from Yunnan, China, and described larval morphology. In the Xenophrys major group of Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 9–40 and Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 380–450, who (p. 410), provided a species account. 

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