Leptobrachella namdongensis Hoang, Nguyen, Luu, Nguyen, and Jiang, 2019

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

Leptobrachella namdongensis Hoang, Nguyen, Luu, Nguyen, and Jiang, 2019, Raffles Bull. Zool., 67: 551. Holotype: VNUF A.2017.37, by original designation. Type locality: "VIETNAM: Thanh Hoa Province, Quan Hoa District, Nam Dong Commune, Nam Dong Conservation Area, 20°19′44.9″N, 104°55′05.7″E, 710 m a.s.l., in evergreen forest". Zoobank publication registration: 76FEE202-6D9E-4491-B0F6-FD095EAD6814 

English Names

Nam Dong Litter Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known from Nam Dong Conservation Area and Pu Hu Nature Reserve, Thanh Hoa Province, and Xuan Nha Nature Reserve, Son La Province, Vietnam; found on rocks in small streams or near cascade streams in evergreen forest at elevations between 500 and 740 m.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

Reported from Xuan Nha Nature Reserve, Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam, by Pham, Nguyen, Pham, Sung, Le, Vaxong, and Ziegler, 2022, Herpetol. Notes, 15: 169–178, and provided descriptive notes on the new specimens. 

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