Amolops yangi Wu, Yu, Lu, Yuan, and Che, 2024

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

Amolops yangi Wu, Yu, Lu, Yuan, and Che in Wu, Yu, Lu, Zhang, Dong, Liu, Kilunda, Xiong, Jiang, He, Yuan, and Che, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 347. Holotype: KIZ 038643, by original designation. Type locality: "Ega, Lushui, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (26.43744°N, 98.75044°E; elevation 3496 m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: C01CD1E8-38F6-4908-93CD-0F7C8259618B

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the banks of fast-moving streams at two localities in Fugong and Lushui counties, both in the Gaoligong Mountains of Yunnan, China, 2500 to 3500 m elevation; likely to be found in the same highlands in adjacent Myanmar.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

In the Amolops viridimaculatus group according to the original publication, where molecular markers and comparative morphology were detailed. See brief account by Che and Yu, 2026, Amph. Mt. Gaoligong: 127–128, for the Mt. Gaoligong area, western Yunnan, China.   

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