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Limnonectes longchuanensis Suwannapoom, Yuan, Sullivan, and McLeod, 2016
Limnonectes longchuanensis Suwannapoom, Yuan, Sullivan, and McLeod in Suwannapoom, Yuan, Chen, Hou, Zhao, Wang, Nguyen, Murphy, Sullivan, McLeod, and Che, 2016, Zootaxa, 4093: 191. Holotype: KIZ048424, by original designation. Type locality: "Longchuan, Dehong, Yunnan, China (24° 27′ 32.40″ N, 97° 45′ 10.80″ E, 1255 m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: 2399B1DF-4CB2-41C0-BC75-D7F886C77A0A
Common Names
Longchuan Big-headed Frog (original publication).
Longchuan Broad-headed Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 22).
陇川大头蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 11; Yuan, Chen, Wu, Li, and Che, 2022, Biodiversity Sci., 30 (4: 21470): 6).
Distribution
Known from Yunnan (Longchuan, Husa, and Yingjiang), Myanmar (Kachin, Chin, and Sagaing), and India (Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh) in evergreen forests along hillside streams.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, India, Myanmar
Comment
In the Limnonectes kuhlii complex according to the original publication. See corrected figures 1 and 2 in Suwannapoom, Yuan, Chen, Hou, Zhao, Wang, Nguyen, Murphy, Sullivan, McLeod, and Che, 2016, Zootaxa, 4137: 599–600. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 22, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. Boruah, Rajiv, Dutta, and Das, 2026, Zootaxa, 5796: 551–571, provided genetically-confirmed (mtDNA) records from Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
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