Boulenophrys shuichengensis (Tian and Sun, 1995)

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

Megophrys shuichengensis Tian and Sun, 1995, J. Liupanshui Teachers College, 52(3): 11–15. Holotype: LTHC 944001, by original designation. Type locality: at an elevation of 1850 metres in Shuicheng County, Guizhou Province, China. Acting as First Revisor this spelling was chosen as the correct original spelling by Ohler, Frétey, and Dubois, 2015, Zootaxa, 3963: 597.

Megophrys shuichengensis Tian, Gu, and Sun, 2000, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 25: 463, 465. Holotype: LTHC 944001, by original designation. Type locality: "Fenghuang village, Shuicheng County (26° 34′ N, 104° 51′ E), Guizhou Province; altitude 1850 m", China. Objective synonym of Megophrys shuichengensis Tian and Sun, 1995, according to Ohler, Frétey, and Dubois, 2015, Zootaxa, 3963: 596. 

Xenophrys shuichengensis — 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.

Xenophrys (Tianophrys) shuichengensis — Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 681. 

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

Panophrys shuichengensis — Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 15. 

Boulenophrys shuichengensis — Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 404.

Common Names

Shuicheng Horned Toad (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 681). 

水城角蟾 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 6).

Distribution

Known from Weixin (Yunnan), Liupanshui and Dafang (Guizhou) and Nanchuan (Chongqing), China, 1387 to 1870 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Most similar to Atympanophrys gigantica, but lacking the apomorphies of that taxon. In the Megophrys omeimontis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 79. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 403-408, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 208-209, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 237, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. See  Ohler, Frétey, and Dubois, 2015, Zootaxa, 3963: 596, for discussion of original publication. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 681–680, provided an account, photogrphs, and dot map, as Xenophrys shuichengensis. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 438–439, placed this in their Boulenophrys boettgeri group, provided an account, discussed the types and inconsistencies in the literature, and suggested that the Suiyang locality is suspect and require confirmation. Zhang, Chen, Xiong, Shen, Kilunda, Pan, Zhong, Li, and Wu, 2026, Biodiversity Data J., 14(e188165): 1–18, described adult and larval morphology, molecular (mtDNA) markers, provided a dot map of the distribution, and suggested that the sister species is Boulenophrys caudoprocta, within the Boulenophrys boettgeri group. 

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