Boulenophrys wugongensis (J. Wang, Lyu, and Y.Y. Wang, 2019)

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

Megophrys (Panophrys) wugongensisJ. Wang, Lyu & Y.Y. Wang in Wang, Lyu, Liu, Liao, Zeng, Zhao, Li, and Wang, 2019, ZooKeys, 851: 149. Holotype: SYS a002625, by original designation. Type locality: "Yangshimu Scenic Area (27°34'47.93"N, 114°15'7.34"E; 550 m a.s.l.), Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, China." http://zoobank.org/51EED805-C594-4FA0-A03E-9BE8C11EAA40 

Panophrys wugonensis — Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 13.

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

English Names

Wugongshan Horned Toad (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality, Yangshimu Scenic Area, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province at approximate 550 m elevation, and Wugongshan Scenic Area, Ji’an City, Jiangxi Province at approximate 1050–1080 m elevation, all located in the Luoxiao Mountains in eastern China; found in leaf litter near a stream in the bamboo forest. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

 Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 440, provided an account and corrected some descriptive errors in the literature. 

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