Scutiger wolong Lyu, Gao, Huang, Wu, Jiang, Jiang, and Li, 2025 "2024"

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

Scutiger wolong Lyu, Gao, Huang, Wu, Jiang, Jiang, and Li, 2025 "2024", Asian Herpetol. Res., 16: 23. Holotype: CIB 12168, by original designation. Type locality: "Wolong Town (30.9198°N, 103.0580° E, ca 2414 m a.s.l.), Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, China." Note that without any kind of zoobank registration this name will take its date of publication from the date of general distribution of paper copies to libraries. The publication date of 13 December 2024 given in the PDF is demonstrably not the formal date of publication, which will be sometime in 2025 (DRF). 

Common Names

Wolong Alpine Toad (original publication). 

卧龙齿突蟾 (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Wolong, Wenchuan County, Sichuan, China, ca. 2414 m elevation). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Previously confused with Scutiger chintingensis, its sister taxon, according to the original publication, where comparative morphology and molecular markers were detailed. See comment under Scutiger chintingensis for literature applicable to this species. 

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