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Boulenophrys wuliangshanensis (Ye and Fei, 1995)
Megophrys wuliangshanensis Ye and Fei, 1995, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 4–5: 73-74. Holotype: CIB 890126, by original designation; renumbered CIB 98011 according to Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 423. Type locality: "Ximinxiang (24° 45′ N, 100° 75′ E), Wuliang-shan, Jingdong [county], Yunnan; altitude 2000 m", China.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) wuliangshanensis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.
Xenophrys wuliangshanensis — 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.
Boulenophrys wuliangshanensis — Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 668; Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 404.
Xenophrys (Panophrys) wuliangshanensis — 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) wuliangshanensis — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755.
Panophrys wuliangshanensis — Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 12.
English Names
Wuliangshan Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 122; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 45).
Wuliangshan's Horned Toad (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 60).
Distribution
Hilly areas of the Jingdong, Zhenyuan, Linxiang, and Jinhong counties in southwestern Yunnan, China, at elevations of 2000–2400 m. See comment.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of
Endemic: China, People's Republic of
Comment
Previously considered to be part of Megophrys minor (e. g, Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1960, Acta Zool. Sinica, 12: 149). Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 122-123, provided a brief account, figure, and map. In the Megophrys boettgeri group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 82. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted one larval description (from China) in the literature. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 447-451, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and spot map. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 60, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 214, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 243, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 668–670, provided an account, photographs, and dot map. as Boulenophrys wuliangshanensis. Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1117-1125, and Mathew and Sen, 2007, Cobra, Chennai, 1 (2): 22, provided records from Nagaland, northeastern India. Ningombam and Bordoloi, 2007, Zoos' Print J., 22: 2688-2690, provided a record for Manipur, northeastern India. Sengupta, Hussain, Gogoi, Choudhury, Kalita, and Baruah, 2010, Hamadryad, 35: 30, provided a record for Assam, northeastern India. Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2020, J. Nat. Hist., London, 54: 182–184, suggested that these identifications of Indian frogs are likely in error and that the specimens are more likely Megophrys serchhipii or others and they recommended that India be removed from the list of political units where this species lives. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 423, provided an account and placed the species in their Boulenophrys omeimontis group.
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