Leptobrachella jinyunensis Shi, Shen, Wang, Jiang, and Wang, 2023

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

Leptobrachella jinyunensis Shi, Shen, Wang, Jiang, and Wang, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 76. Holotype: CIB 119039, by original designation. Type locality: "Jinyun Mountains, Beibei District, Chongqing Municipality, China (29.8242°N, 106.3863°, ca. 393 m a.s.l.) when calling under small rock in a small mountain stream". 

English Names

Jinyun Leaf Litter Toad (original publication). 

Distribution

Jinyun Mountain, Beibei District, Chongqing, China and Huaying Mountain, Sichuan, China, 343 to 937 m elevation, near to small stream heads and mountain streams under evergreen broad leaf forests.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Adult and larval comparative morphology, morphometrics, molecular phylogenetic placement, and vocalization provided in the original publication. 

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