Grillitschia longipes (Boulenger, 1886)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Grillitschia > Species: Grillitschia longipes

Megalophrys longipes Boulenger, 1886 "1885", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1885: 850. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.25.8 (formerly 1885.11.2.12) by museum records. Type locality: "The mountains of Perak, Straits of Malacca, at a height of 3,300 feet", Malaysia (Malaya).

Megophrys longipesGee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 20; Smith, 1930, Bull. Raffles Mus., 3: 132.

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

Megophrys (Xenophrys) longipesDubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14; Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755.

Xenophrys longipesKhonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 75; Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23; by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 39.

Xenophrys (Xenophrys) longipes — 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. 

Grillitschia longipes — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 133. 

English Names

Malacca Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86; Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 14).

Red Legged Spine-eyed Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 84).

Red-legged Horn Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 84).

Slender-legged Horned Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 84).

Malacca Horned Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 36). 

Long-legged Horned Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 152).

Bigfoot Horned Toadfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 28).

Distribution

Mountain ranges of peninsular Thailand and Tanintharyi Division, peninsular Myanmar, south to Malaya (West Malaysia), 300–1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Myanmar, Thailand

Comment

See accounts by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 197–198, Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 437–438, Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 290–292, and Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 37. Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 41, considered Megophrys longipes to doubtfully range into Vietnam, and Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 471, doubted its existence in Cambodia or Vietnam. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 80–81. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 83, provided the Vietnam component of the range. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 84, provided a brief characterization of this species, but Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 101, suggested that the animal photographed could not be allocated to this species. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 14, provided a number of records from throughout Vietnam; the status of the identifications needs to be evaluated. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 147, provided a photograph of a Vietnamese specimen of this nominal species. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 625, who thought that the records for Vietnam apply to Megophrys lateralis. Wogan, Vindum, Wilkinson, Koo, Slowinski, Win, Thin, Kyi, Oo, Lwin, and Shein, 2008, Hamadryad, 33: 84, provided the first record for Tanintharyi Division, peninsular Myanmar. Grismer, Chan, Grismer, Wood, and Ahmad, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 147–160, reported localities from the Banjaran Bintang Mountains, northwestern peninsular Malaysia. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 126, detailed the range in Thailand. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 152–153, provided a brief account (photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). In the Xenophrys aceras group of Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 9–40. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 28–29, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.

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