Leptobrachella duyenae Hoang, Pham, Phan, Do, Wang, Jiang, and Nguyen, 2025

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachella > Species: Leptobrachella duyenae

Leptobrachella duyenae Hoang, Pham, Phan, Do, Wang, Jiang, and Nguyen, 2025, Asian Herpetol. Res., 16: 185. Holotype: IEBR A.5229, by original designation. Type locality: "VIETNAM: Khanh Hoa Province, Dien Khanh District, Hon Ba Nature Reserve (12°6′26.38″ N, 108°58′54.18″E, 534 m a.s.l.)". No ZooBank registration so DRF is unclear on the publication status of this article. 

Common Names

Duyen’s Litter Frog (original publication). 

Cóc mày duyên (Vietnamese: original publication). 

Distribution

Ba Nature Reserve (ca. 524 m elevation) in Khanh Hoa Province and Deo Ca Mountain Forest (640–822 m elevation) in Phu Yen Province, Vietnam.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

Most closely related to Leptobrachella bidoupensis from southern Vietnam, according to the original publication, where comparative morphology and molecular markers were detailed. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Duong, Le, and Orlov, 2025, Russ. J. Herpetol., 32: 293–308, provided a molecular tree of the Leptobrachella applebyi group and a dot map of the distribution of their sampling sites of this species. 

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