Boulenophrys binlingensis (Jiang, Fei, and Ye, 2009)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Boulenophrys > Species: Boulenophrys binlingensis

Megophrys binlingensis Jiang, Fei, and Ye In Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 370: 380. Holotype: CIB 950263, by original designation. Type locality: "Binling [= Bingling] of Honya Co., Sichuan, altitude 1480 m", China.

Xenophrys binlingensis — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 106: 41.

Megophrys binlingensis binlingensis — Zhang, Liang, Ran, and Shen, 2012, Chinese J. Zool., 47: 135. 

Xenophrys (Xenophrys) binlingensis — Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 709. 

Megophrys (Panophrys) binlingensis — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755.

Xenophrys (Panophrys) binlingensis — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 109: 41.

Panophrys binlingensis — Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 12. 

Boulenophrys binlingensis — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 679 (by implication); Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 403, new combination.

English Names

Binling Horned Toad (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 211). 

Bingling Horned Toad (Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 417). 

Distribution

Known from the vicinity of the type locality (Bingling, Honya County, central Sichuan, 1480 to 1560 m elevation). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Most similar to Megophrys omeimontis according to the original publication. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 183, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 211, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 709–711, provided an account, photographs, and dot map, as Xenophrys binlingensisLyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 417, provided an account, did not mention any records from eastern Guizhou, suggesting reassignment of these records, and noted it to be in their Boulenophrys omeimontis group.  

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