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Leptobrachella purpurus (Yang, Zeng, and Wang, 2018)
Leptolalax purpurus Yang, Zeng, and Wang, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4586): 6. Holotype: SYS a006531, by original designation. Type locality: "Jinzhuzhai Village, Tongbiguan Town, Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China (24° 37′ 33.32″N, 97° 37′ 11.91″E, 1,615 m a.s.l.)". The species name is a noun in apposition. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:40673093-C3A4-4F0C-AD60-C0B517FCEF70
Leptobrachella purpurus — Here (14 April 2018) to conform to revision by 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: 162–171
Leptobrachella purpura — Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: 199. Treatment of the species name as an adjective rather than a noun in apposition.
English Names
Purplish-brown Leaf Litter Toad (original publication).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Tongbiguan Town, Yingjiang County of Yunnan Province, China, 1615 m elevation).
Comment
The distinctiveness of this species from Leptobrachella alpina was questioned by Wang, Qi, Dai, Lyu, Zeng, Chen, Li, Zhao, Wang, and Wang, 2022, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 98: 176, on the basis of morphological similarity and low genetic distance but refrained from making the synonymy pending additional work.
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