Boulenophrys omeimontis (Liu, 1950)

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

Megophrys omeimontis Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 191. Holoype: FMNH 49406, by original designation. Type locality: "Mount Omei [= Emei], Szechwan [=Sichuan], altitude 3,600 feet", China.

Megophrys (Megophrys) omeimontisDubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472. 

Megophrys omeimontis omeimontis — Fei and Ye in Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 50.

Panophrys omeimontis — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 13. 

Megophrys (Xenophrys) omeimontisDubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.

Xenophrys omeimontisOhler, 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.

Xenophrys (Xenophrys) omeimontis — Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 706. 

Xenophrys (Panophrys) omeimontis — 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.

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

Boulenophrys omeimontis — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 414; Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 404.

Common Names

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

Omei Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 112; Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 625).

Distribution

Hilly areas on the southern edge of the Sichuan Basin, including southeastern and northern Sichuan, southwestern Chongqing, northwestern Guizhou, and northeastern Yunnan, at elevations of 400–1600 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Reviewed by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 63-65, and Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 49-52, both in the sense of including Megophrys jingdongensis. See also Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 119-120, for distribution of subspecies and nomenclatural note. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 172, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 112-113. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 144-145, provided a brief account and illustration. In the Megophrys omeimontis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 79. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 625 (in the sense of including Megophrys jingdongensis). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 395-400 , provided accounts and spot maps. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 202-203, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 230–231, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 706–709, provided an account, photographs, and dot map, as Xenophrys omeimontis. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 420, provided an account and included the species in their Boulenophrys omeimontis group. Li, Xiao, Zhao, Wu, Jin, Yan, and Liao, 2025, Biology, 14(614): 1–12, reported the species from, and its habitat preference in, Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve, in the Minshan Mountain range, northern Sichuan, China.

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