Micryletta melanops Poyarkov, Nguyen, Yang, and Gorin, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Micryletta > Species: Micryletta melanops

Micryletta melanops Poyarkov, Nguyen, Yang, and Gorin, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 728. Holotype: ZMMU A7583, by original designation. Type locality: "a pit-fall trap within a montane evergreen pine forest in the environs of Giang Ly Ranger Station in Bidoup-Nui Ba NP, Da Nhim River Valley, Da Chais Commune, Lac Duong District, Lam Dong Province, Langbian Plateau, southern Vietnam . . . (N12.1843°, E108.6789°; at an elevation of 1 460 m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: 496520BA-E40F-41DE-A4B3-064450A17882

English Names

Black-eyed Paddy Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Currently known only from mid-elevation montane evergreen pine forest in its type locality a narrow area within the environs of the Giang Ly Ranger Station within the Bidoup-Nui Ba NP, Lam Dong Province, Langbian Plateau, southern Vietnam.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

Larval and adult morphology, habitat, and molecular markers detailed in the original publication. 

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