Limnonectes quangninhensis Pham, Le, Nguyen, Ziegler, Wu, and Nguyen, 2017

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

Limnonectes quangninhensis Pham, Le, Nguyen, Ziegler, Wu, and Nguyen, 2017, Zootaxa, 4269: 549. Holotype: IEBR 3907, by original designation. Type locality: "in the evergreen forest near Tai Chi Village (21°31.785’N, 107°38.965’E, at an elevation of 195 m), Quang Son Commune, Hai Ha District, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam". 

English Names

Quangninh Wart Frog (original publication). 

Quang Ninh Fanged Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 25). 

Distribution

Extreme northeastern Vietnam in Bac Giang and Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam on the mainland and islands of the Gulf of Tonkin; presumably to be found in adjacent China.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

The sister taxon of Limnonectes fujianensis according to the original publication. Pham, Phan, Do, and Nguyen, 2019, Tap-Chi-Sinh-Hoc, 41 (2se1&2se2): 174–175, reported collection site in Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, Son Dong District, Bac Giang Province, Vietnam, and described the specimen, provided a photograph and ecological notes, and summarized the range in Vietnam by province. Pham, Do, Ngo, Tran, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2020, Check List, 16: 1025–1041, discussed the range in Vietnam and provided a record from Hai Ha District, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, on the Guangxi, China, border. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 25, implied that the reference to Limnonectes cf. bannaensis by Gawor, Pham, Nguyen, Nguyen, Schmitz, and Ziegler, 2016, Salamandra, 52: 23–41, but this remains conjecture as Gawor et al. (2016) was not mentioned in the original description of Limnonectes quangninhensis

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