Kaloula laosensis Poyarkov, Orlov, Gorin, and Milto, 2024

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Kaloula > Species: Kaloula laosensis

Kaloula laosensis Poyarkov, Orlov, Gorin, and Milto in Gorin, Orlov, Bragin, Pawangkhanant, Milto, Le, Nguyen, Dufresnes, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 410. Holotype: ZISP 15284, by original designation. Type locality: "Na Home Village, Bouphala District, near the border of Nakai-Nam Theun National Park, Khammouane Province, Laos". Zoobank Publication registration: E97A128A-13B5-4781-8FEC-ADC5CB37AB45

Common Names

Laotian Painted Frog (original publication). 

Laosskiy bychiy uzkorot (original publication: Russian)

Ễnh ương Lào (original publication: Vietnamese)

ອື່ງຢາງລາວ (original publication: Lao). 

Distribution

Reliably known only from two localities in Khammouane Province of Laos (Nakai-Nam Theun National Park and in Hin Nam No National Park), in limestone evergreen tropical forests at relatively low elevations of ca. 100–300 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Laos

Endemic: Laos

Comment

Before its naming, populations were previously referred to Kaloula indochinensis by Chan, Blackburn, Murphy, Stuart, Emmett, Ho, and Brown, 2013, Herpetologica, 69: 334; Chan, Grismer, and Brown, 2014, Zootaxa, 3900: 577; Teynié, Nguyen, Lorvelec, Piquet, Lottier, and David, 2014, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 151: 29; Chandramouli and Prasad, 2018, Tropical Nat. Hist., Thailand, 18: 52; and Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 39), according to the original publication where assignment to the Kaloula baleata complex, molecular markers, adult morphology, and natural history observations were provided.

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