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Amolops mengyangensis Wu and Tian, 1995
Amolops mengyangensis Wu and Tian, 1995, in Zhao (ed.), Amph. Zoogeograph. Div. China: 52. Holotype: CIB 6885, by original designation. Type locality: "Mengyang, Xishuang Banna, southern Yunnan Province, China, 680 meters".
Common Names
勐养湍蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 8).
Distribution
Known from the type locality (Mengyang, Xishuang Banna, southern Yunnan Province, China, 680 meters) and (see comment), if Odorrana daorum is a synonym, from the vicinity of Sa Pa, Vietnam (on the Yunnan border of China) and Hong Kong as well as Huaphahn Province, Laos; presumably more widespread in intervening areas.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of
Likely/Controversially Present: Hong Kong, Laos, Vietnam
Endemic: China, People's Republic of
Comment
Closely related to Amolops chunganensis according to the original publication. See discussion by Ohler, 2007, Alytes, 25: 55-74, regarded Amolops daorum as a junior synonym. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1514, regarded Amolops mengyangensis as a junior synonym of Amolops chunganensis. See comment under Amolops daorum for discussion of taxonomic issues. In the Amolops monticola group of Stuart, Bain, Phimmachak, and Spence, 2010, Herpetologica, 66: 52-66. In the Amolops monticola group of Wu, Yan, Stuart, Prendini, Suwannapoom, Dahn, Zhang, Cai, Xu, Jiang, Chen, Lemmon, Lemmon, Raxworthy, Orlov, Murphy, and Che, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 144 (106701): 1–13, who discussed molecular phylogenetics. Unassigned to species group and not mentioned by Jiang, Ren, Lyu, Wang, Wang, Lv, Wu, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 574–591.
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