Amolops nyingchiensis Jiang, Wang, Xie, Jiang, and Che, 2016

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Amolops > Species: Amolops nyingchiensis

Amolops nyingchiensis Jiang, Wang, Yan, Xie, Jiang, and Che in Jiang, Wang, Xie, Zou, Liu, Jiang, Li, and Che, 2016, Zool. Res., Kunming, 37: 32. Holotype: KIZ 016432, by original designation. Type locality: "Gedang (N29.43871°, E95.66502°, elevation 1 887 m), Medog, Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet, PR China". 

Common Names

Nyingchi Cascade Frog (original publication). 

林芝湍蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 8).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Gedang, Mêdog, 1887 m elevation) and Zhibai (Paizhen, Mainling), 2941 m elevation, both in Nyingchi Prefecture, southeastern Xizang, China south into the Dibang River Basin in Arunachal Pradesh, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, India

Comment

In the Amolops monticola group according to the original publication. In the Amolops monticola group of Zeng, Liang, Li, Lyu, Wang, and Zhang, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 146 (106753): 1–9, who discussed phylogenetics. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 218–223, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. In the Amolops monticola group of Zeng, Liang, Li, Lyu, Wang, and Zhang, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 146 (106753): 1–9, and 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. In the Amolops monticola group of Jiang, Ren, Lyu, Wang, Wang, Lv, Wu, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 574–591. Roy, Begum, Ahmed, Dorphang, Purkayastha, and Sengupta, 2026, Russ. J. Herpetol., 33: 77–84, provided genetically confirmed records from Dibang River Basin in Arunachal Pradesh, India. In the Amolops monticola group of Biju, Ellepola, Sarmah, Upadhyaya K., Bisht, Tajo, Hanken, and Garg, 2026, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 164: 1–144, who reported on the molecular and morphological phylogenetics of the genus,  with special reference to the species of India. 

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