Scutiger lisu Wang, Yu, and Che. 2025

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

Scutiger lisu Wang, Yu, and Che in Wang, Yu, Wu, Hou, Wang, Xiong, Ye, Duan, Li, LI, Jin, Yang, and Che, 2025, Zootaxa, 5725: 214. Holotype: KIZ 039265, by original designation. Type locality: "from the west side of the Dugong Tunnel, Dulongjiang Township, Gongshan County, Yunnan Province, China (98.46942ºE, 27.84864ºN, elevation 2899 m, gCJ02)." ZooBank Publication record: D5932D8C-D342-4592-89AF-6F134F8781AA

Common Names

Lisu Lazy Toad (original publication). 

傈僳齿突蟾 (Chinese: original publication). 

Distribution

Alpine coniferous forest and adjacent streams and small rivers at the type locality on Gaoligong Mountain in Gongshan County, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China; it may be found further southward along the Gaoligong Mountain Range and on the western slope of the mountain in adjacent Kachin State, Myanmar. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Comment

Molecular markers, morphology, and morphometrics noted in the original publication where this species was suggested to be the sister taxon of Scutiger mammatus. Confused previously with Scutiger gongshanensis according to the original publication. 

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