Leptobrachella tengchongensis (Yang, Wang, Chen, and Rao, 2016)

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

Leptolalax tengchongensis Yang, Wang, Chen, and Rao, 2016, Zootaxa, 4088: 384. Holotype: SYS a004600, by original designation. Type locality: "3 m away from a rocky stream. The stream was 3–4 m wide, flowing through a montane evergreen broadleaf forest at Linjiapu substation of the Tengchong Section of Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, China (25°17′51.26″ N, 98°42′03.93″ E, 2100 m above sea level)". Zoobank publication registration: DBAAB499-4DD9-47B2-A5BE-DD726EEF0877

Leptobrachella tengchongensis — 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

Tengchong Leaf Litter Toad (original publication). 

腾冲掌突蟾 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 5).

Distribution

Known from its type locality, near Linjiapu substation (a ranger station) of the Tengchong Section of Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Tengchong County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, China, 2000–2100 m elevation.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

The sister taxon of Leptolalax bourreti + (Leptolalax eos + Leptolalax oshanensis) according to the original publication. Yeung, Huang, Yang, and Yang, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 221–227, reported on the advertisement call. 

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