Limnonectes phuyenensis Pham, Do, Le, Ngo, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2020

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

Limnonectes phuyenensis Pham, Do, Le, Ngo, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2020, Zootaxa, 4894: 390. Holotype: IEBR 4737, by original designation. Type locality: "12°51.184’N, 109°13.151’E, at an elevation of 359 m asl.) in the evergreen forest of Ca Mountain Pass, near Hoa Thinh Commune,Tay Hoa District, Phu Yen Province, Vietnam". Zoobank publication registration: 81BEB8C0-03C5-43C3-8BDD-E0C780D86041

Common Names

Phu Yen Wart Frog (original publication). 

Phu Yen Fanged Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 26). 

Distribution

Known from the type locality in Ca Mountain Pass, near Hoa Thinh Commune, Tay Hoa District, Phu Yen Province (359 m elevation), and from Van Ninh District (319 and 371 m elevation), Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

The original publication provided external morphology, an mtDNA tree of relationships, and habitat description. Nguyen, Phan, Do, Nguyen, Ziegler, Pham, and Pham, 2025, Biodiversity Data J., 13(e146098): 1–19, provided gentically confirmed records from Khanh Hoa Province, southern Vietnam, and briefly discussed the range.  

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