Limnonectes paulyambuni Matsui, Nishikawa, and Shimada, 2024

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Limnonectes > Species: Limnonectes paulyambuni

Limnonectes paulyambuni Matsui, Nishikawa, and Shimada in Matsui, Nishikawa, Shimada, Eto, Hamidy, Sudin, Hossman, Gumal, and Vairappan, 2024, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 43: 268. Holotype: BORNEENSIS 12714, by original designation. Type locality: "TBC (Taman Banjaran Crocker=CRP HQ), Kimanis, Interior Division, Sabah (05°23'41"N, 116°06'15"E, 960 m as.)". Zoobank Publication registration: BFFA8A8E-AD46-4BE8-B965-3E5D26978071

Common Names

Paul’s Fanged Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Interior, Sandakan, and West Coast Divisions, Sabah, Malaysia, 909 tp 1200 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Comment

Comparative morphology, mtDNA 16s molecular markers, and natural history detailed in the original publcation. Previously confused with Limnonectes kuhlii, but referred to as  Limnonectes sp. Lineage 17 by Matsui, Kuraishi, Eto, Hamidy, Nishikawa, Shimada, Yambun Imbun, Vairappan, and Hossman, 2016, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 102: 308.

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