Boulenophrys kuatunensis (Pope, 1929)

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

Megalophrys kuatunensis Pope, 1929, Am. Mus. Novit., 352: 1. Holotype: AMNH 30126, by original designation; redescribed by Tapley, Cutajar, Mahony, Nguyen, Dau, Nguyen, Luong, and Rowley, 2017, Zootaxa, 4344: 482–486. Type locality: "Kuatun Village, Ch'ungan Hsien, northwestern Fukien [= Fujian] Province, China; altitude 5500–6000 feet", China. Given as "Guadun (ca. 27°40’N, 117°40’E, ca. 1675–1830 m asl), Wuyishan County, Nanping Prefecture, Fujian Province", China, by Tapley, Cutajar, Mahony, Nguyen, Dau, Nguyen, Luong, and Rowley, 2017, Zootaxa, 4344: 482.

Megophrys kuatunensis — Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 20; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 65.

Megophrys (Megophrys) kuatunensis — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472.

Panophrys kuatunensis — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 12. 

Megophrys (Xenophrys) kuatunesis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.

Xenophrys kuatunensis — Sukumaran, 2003 "2002", Hamadryad, 27: 4; Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23; by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17; 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 (Panophrys) kuatunensis — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755. 

Boulenophrys kuatunensis — Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 658; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 413; Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 403.

Common Names

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

Kuatun Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 116).

Distribution

Known definitely only from Mount Wuyi and Mount Yangjifeng at the border between Fujian and Jiangxi, China, at elevations of 1200–1400 m; records from southern Hunan, Guangdong, eastern Guangxi, southern Anhui, and southern Zhejiang, China, require confirmation (see comment). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Closely allied to Megophrys boettgeri and Megophrys minor, according to Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 444. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 116–177, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 37–38, provided an account for Zhejiang. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 38, provided an account for Guangxi.In the Megophrys boettgeri group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 82. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 425–429, provided an account for China and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 196, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 224, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Wang, Zhao, Yang, Zhou, Chen, and Liu, 2014, PLoS One, 9(4)(e93075): 1–15, discussed the advertisement call. Xiong, Matsui, Nishikawa, and Jiang, 2015, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 34: 51–59, reported on the advertisement call. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 658–660, provided an account for China, photographs, and dot map, as Boulenophrys kuatunensis. Tapley, Cutajar, Mahony, Nguyen, Dau, Nguyen, Luong, and Rowley, 2017, Zootaxa, 4344: 465–492, rediagnosed this species and assigned the specimens from Vietnam to Megophrys rubimera. See account of this species by Tapley, Cutajar, Mahony, Nguyen, Dau, Nguyen, Luong, and Rowley, 2017, Zootaxa, 4344: 482–486, who suggested that populations in Zhejiang, Hunan, and Guangxi, China, need to have their identifications evaluated using molecular evidence. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 165–169, provided a detailed account for Hunan. China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 28, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Records from Xianju County, Zhejiang Province, China, presumably all apply to Megophrys xianjuensis, according to Wang, Wu, Peng, Shi, Lu, and Wu, 2020, ZooKeys, 904: 54–55. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 432, provided an account, discussed the systematic literature, placed this in their Boulenophrys boettgeri group, and restricted the range to Mount Wuyi and Mount Yangjifeng at the border between Fujian and Jiangxi, China, due to the other stated localities not being supported by voucher specimens or genetic confirmation. Shang, Luo, Qian, Gao, Li, Deng, and Yang, 2023, Life Sci. Res., 27: 349–360, discussed records from Hunan, China, suggesting that its presence in that province requires confirmation. Wang, Wang, Hu, Ma, He, and Ding, 2024, MtDNA, Part B, 9: 1098–1102, reported on the complete mtDNA genome and its phylogenetic implications.      

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