Scutiger adungensis Dubois, 1979

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Scutiger > Species: Scutiger adungensis

Scutiger adungensis Dubois, 1979, Rev. Suisse Zool., 86: 631. Holotype: BMNH 1932.6.8.7, by original designation. Type locality: "la valée de l'Adung, Birmanie, a la frontière tibéto-birmane, a l'altitude de 12000 pieds (3650 m)".

Scutiger (Scutiger) adungensisDubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 478; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 15.

Scutiger (Aelurophryne) adungensisFei, Ye, and Li, 1989, Acta Zool. Sinica, 35: 387; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 13.

English Names

Adung Lazy Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).

Adung Alpine Toad (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 28).

Distribution

Known from the Adung Valley of Kachin, Myanmar, adjacent northeastern Yunnan, China.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

This species is intermediate between Scutiger and Oreolalax, as delimited by Myers and Leviton, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 287–291, according to the original publication, which prompted Dubois, 1979, Rev. Suisse Zool., 86: 631–640, to consider Oreolalax to be a synonym of Scutiger, even though he continued to recognize the taxa separately at a different rank. See Khatiwada, Shu, Subedi, Wang, Ohler, Cannatella, Xie, and Jiang, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 139–157, for comment on morphology. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 28, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. Rao, 2022 "2020", in Zhu and Rao (eds.), Atlas Wildlife SW China: 189, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. 

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