Scutiger wanglangensis Ye and Fei, 2007

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

Scutiger (Scutiger) wanglangensis Ye and Fei, 2007, Herpetol. Sinica, 11: 33. Holotype: CIB 88020, by original designation. Type locality: "Wangbachu of Pingwu County, Sichuan Province, China; altitude 2500 m".

English Names

Wanglang Alpine Toad (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 182). 

Distribution

Wenxian County in Gansu and Pingwu and Nanping counties in northern Sichuan, China, 2200 to 2800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

In the Scutiger boulengeri group according to the original publication. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 194-198, provided an account and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 154-155, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 182–183, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 581–583, provided an account, photograph, and dot map. See Khatiwada, Shu, Subedi, Wang, Ohler, Cannatella, Xie, and Jiang, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 139–157, for comments on morphology.   

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