Leptobrachella sungi (Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 1998)

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

Leptolalax sungi Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 1998, Amphibia-Reptilia, 19: 254. Holotype: ROM 28474, by original designation. Type locality: "a stream on the east side of the village of Tam Dao (21° 27′ 31″ N; 105° 38′ 61″ E), elevation 925 m, Vinh Phu Province, Vietnam".

Leptolalax (Lalax) sungi — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 14.

Paramegophrys (Paramegophrys) sungi — Jiang, Ye, and Fei, 2008, J. Anhui Normal Univ., Nat. Sci., 31: 263.

Paramegophrys sangi — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 320. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the species name.

Leptolalax (Lalos) sungi — Dubois, Grosjean, Ohler, Adler, and Zhao, 2010, Zootaxa, 2493: 67.

Leptobrachella sungi — 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

Sung Toad (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 13).

Sang's [sic] Metacarpal-tubercled Toad (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 175).

Sung's Metacarpal-tubercled Toad (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 607). 

Sung's Toad (Le, Luong, Pham, Phan, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2021, Bonn Zool. Bull., 70: 203).

Sung’s Litter Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 31). 

Distribution

Northern Vietnam in the provinces of Vinh Phuc, Van Yen, Lao Cai, Dien Bien, Phu Tho, Son La, and Tuyen Quang); southern Guangxi, China, near the extreme northeastern Vietnam border.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Vietnam

Comment

Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 13, provided the Van Yen Province record. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 108, provided a record from Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, and briefly discussed the range. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 299-304, provided an account and spot map (as Paramegophrys sangi [sic]) and reported the species for Guangxi, China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 175, provided a brief account (as Paramegophrys sangi) including photographs of specimens and habitat. Ohler, Wollenberg, Grosjean, Hendrix, Vences, Ziegler, and Dubois, 2011, Zootaxa, 3147: 1-83, characterized the species comparatively. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 203, provided an account (as Paramegophrys sangi [sic]), photographs, and a range map for China. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 607–609, provided an account, photograph, and spot map for China. Luong, Nguyen, Le, Nguyen, and Nguyen, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 375–387, provided records from Dien Bien Province, Vietnam, and discussed the range and natural history. Pham, Pham, Doan, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2019, Biodiversity Data J., 7 (e39140): 1–18, reported the species from Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam. 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: 169, provided the record from Xuan Son National Park, Phu Tho Province, Vietnam. Le, Luong, Pham, Phan, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2021, Bonn Zool. Bull., 70: 201–219, provided a record from Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam. 

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