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Leptobrachium mechuka Sarmah, Garg, Tajo, Upadhyaya K., Hanken, and Biju, 2026

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

Leptobrachium mechuka Sarmah, Garg, Tajo, Upadhyaya K., Hanken, and Biju, 2026, PeerJ, 14(e20397): 20. Holotype: ZSI A16315, by original designation. Type locality: "Mechuka (28°35′48.6′′N, 94°07′20.9′′E, 1,950 m asl), Shi Yomi district, Arunachal Pradesh state, India". ZooBank Publication registration: FAB0DA74-81DE-4415-AA0A-D5AED2E25914

Common Names

Mechuka Slender Armed Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Mechuka, Shi Yomi district of Arunachal Pradesh state, India, at elevations of ca. 1900 m) and from Medog (29°13′28.2′′N, 95° 11′08.5′′E, 1,600 m asl), China.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Comparative adult and larval morphology, advertisement call, and natural history detailed in the original publication, where this species was assigned to the Leptobrachium bompu group. These authors also noted (p. 28) that the Medog record was previously reported as Leptobrachium bompu by Liang, Liu, Wang, Ding, Wu, Xie, and Jiang, 2017, Asian Herpetol. Res., 8: 137–146 (who reported on specimens from Upper Medog, Xizang, China, and provided descriptions of tadpole and adult morphology, advertisement calls, and its phylogenetic position), and as Leptobrachium cf. bompu by Sarmah, Tajo, Upadhyaya K., Garg, and Biju, 2025, Zootaxa, 5636: 237–264 (where adult and larval morphology, molecular markers, and acoustics were described and where the authors 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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