Raorchestes cangyuanensis Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu, Murphy, and Che, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Raorchestes > Species: Raorchestes cangyuanensis

Raorchestes cangyuanensis Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu, Murphy, and Che in Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu, Chen, Jin, Chen, Murphy, and Che, 2019, Zool. Res., Kunming, 40: 559. Holotype:  KIZ 015856, by original designation. Type locality: "from Cangyuan County, Yunnan Province, China (N23.22542°, E99.22509°, 1 272 m a.s.l.)". urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:735566BF-4677-479B-B5D0-E52D1468C229

English Names

Cangyuan Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 13).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Cangyuan County, Yunnan, China, N23.22542°, E99.22509°, elevation 1272 m),  from Mizoram, northeastern India, and from Satchari National Park, Bangladesh; presumably to be found in intervening Myanmar. 

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

The Hmuifang, Mizoram, India, and Satchari National Park, Bangladesh, records by Lalronunga, Vanramliana, Lalramliana, and Lalhmingliani, 2021, Zootaxa, 4974: 383–390, were confirmed by molecular assay. 

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