Leptobrachium bompu Sondhi and Ohler, 2011

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachium > Species: Leptobrachium bompu

Leptobrachium bompu Sondhi and Ohler, 2011, Zootaxa, 2912: 30. Holotype: SFI No. KA0001/200905, by original designation. Type locality: "Bompu (27° 06′61″ N, 92° 40′64″ E), altitude of 1940 m", Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Common Names

Bompu Litter Toad (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 5).

波普拟髭蟾 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 4).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, West Kameng District, and Talle Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lower Subansiri District, both localities in Arunachal Pradesh, India, 1950 m elevation); a record from Sarpang District in Bhutan required genetic confirmation; likely unnamed associated taxon in Beibung of upper Medog, Tibet, China, 1940 m elevation. See comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Likely/Controversially Present: Bhutan, China, People's Republic of

Comment

Liang, Liu, Wang, Ding, Wu, Xie, and Jiang, 2017, Asian Herpetol. Res., 8: 137–146, reported on specimens from Upper Medog, Xizang, China, and provided descriptions of tadpole and adult morphology, advertisement calls, and its phylogenetic position within Leptobrachium. Saikia, Sinha, and Kharkongor, 2018, J. Threatened Taxa, 9: 10692–10696, provided a second locality in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Tenzin and Wangyal, 2019, J. Threatened Taxa, 11: 13385–13389, provided a record for the Sarpang District in Bhutan. See account, map and photograph for Tibet by Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 103–106. Upadhyaya K., Sarmah, Tajo, Garg, and Biju, 2025, Zootaxa, 5636: 237–264, described adult and larval morphology, molecular markers, and acoustics, and suggested that the Chinese component of the range may represent an unnamed species and that the Bhutan record requires genetic confirmation. 

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