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Leptobrachella puhoatensis (Rowley, Dau, and Cao, 2017)
Leptolalax puhoatensis Rowley, Dau, and Cao, 2017, Zootaxa, 4273: 67. Holotype: VNMN 2016 A.22, by original designaiton. Type locality: "in seep in evergreen forest at Pu Hoat Nature Reserve, Nghe An Province, Vietnam (19.6983º N, 104.7373º E, 1177 m a.s.l; . . . )". Zoobank publication registration: 60E6933F-0731-4AAA-8E3B-EADF53C0AC54
Leptobrachella puhoatensis — Chen, Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Lathrop, Wu, Zhou, Yuan, Jin, Chen, Liu, Nguyen, Nguyen, Duong, Eto, Nishikawa, Matsui, Orlov, Stuart, Brown, Rowley, Murphy, Wang, and Che, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 124: 162, by implication.
Common Names
Pu Hoat Litter Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 31).
Distribution
Known only from Pu Hoat Nature Reserve in Nghe An Province, Vietnam, 1123–1352 m elevation; probably extends further into adjoining areas such as the adjacent forested areas in Nghe An Province as well as parts of eastern Huaphanh Province, Laos.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Vietnam
Endemic: Vietnam
Comment
The sister taxon of Leptolalax petrops according to the original publication. Hoang, Nguyen, Luu, Nguyen, and Jiang, 2019, Raffles Bull. Zool., 67: 555, reassigned the record from Pu Hu Nature Reserve, Than Hoa Province, Vietnam, to Leptobrachella namdongensis.
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