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Megophrys brachykolos Inger and Romer, 1961
Megophrys brachykolos Inger and Romer, 1961, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 533. Holotype: FMNH 69063, by original designation. Type locality: "The Peak, Hong Kong Island", China.
Megophrys (Megophrys) brachykolos — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472.
Panophrys brachykolos — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98-99. Tentative arrangement.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) brachykolos — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.
Megophrys minor brachykolos — Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 118. No discussion.
Xenophrys brachykolos — 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, 2016, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 106: 41.
Megophrys (Panophrys) brachykolos — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755.
Boulenophrys brachykolos — Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 650.
English Names
Peak Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).
Short-legged Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 118).
Short-legged Toad (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 16; Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 13).
Distribution
Southwestern Hubei to eastern Guizhou, Henan, and south to eastern Guangxi, western and southern Guangdong to Hong Kong; nominally associated allopatric population in northeastern Vietnam (Lang Son and Ha Bac provinces), 20-750 m elevation.
Comment
Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 118-199, provided a brief account (as Megophrys minor brachykolos), map, and figure. Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 16, also provided a brief account. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 83, provided the Vietnamese part of the range. Jiang, Yuan, Xie, and Zheng, 2003, Zool. Res., Kunming, 24: 241-248, justified the distinction of this taxon from Megophrys minor on the basis of DNA sequence data. In the Megophrys boettgeri group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 82. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 444. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 433-438, provided an account for China and spot map that extended the range deep within southern China. Dai, Li, Zheng, Gong, and Liu, 2009, Sichuan J. Zool., 28: 291, provided a record for Hubei, China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 214, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 653–655, provided an account, photographs, and dot map. as Boulenophrys brachykolos. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 169–171, provided a detailed account for Hunan. China, although the identification of this population needs to be verified. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 80–82, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China.
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