Amolops yunkaiensis Lyu, Wang, Liu, Zeng, and Wang, 2018

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

Amolops yunkaiensis Lyu, Wang, Liu, Zeng, and Wang in Lyu, Wu, Wang, Sung, Liu, Zeng, Wang, Li, and Wang, 2018, Zootaxa, 4418: 569. Holotype: SYS a004705, by original designation. Type locality: "Bajiaxianhu (21°53′35.5″N, 111°29′5.1″E; 441 m a.s.l.), Ehuangzhang Nature Reserve, Guangdong Province, China." Zoobank publication registration: 3A067896-23AB-4674-B005-18F13A7A509C

Common Names

Yunkai Torrent Frog (original publication). 

云开湍蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 9). 

Distribution

Known from the type locality, the Ehuangzhang Nature Reserve and Yunkaishan Nature Reserve in the Yunkai Mountains, western Guangdong Province, China, in rocky, fast-flowing streams (300–900 m elevation) surrounded by moist subtropical secondary evergreen broad-leaved forests. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

The sister taxon of Amolops albispinus according to the original publication. Lyu, Huang, Wang, Li, Chen, Qi, and Wang, 2019, ZooKeys, 812: 133–156, placed this species in the Amolops ricketti group via a mtDNA tree and provided a range map (including a record from southwestern Guangdong previously assigned to Amolops torrentis).  In the Amolops ricketti 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. Zeng, Wang, Lyu, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5004: 152, provided a map of genetically-confirmed localities. In the Amolops ricketti group of Jiang, Ren, Lyu, Wang, Wang, Lv, Wu, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 574–591. Wang, Li, Du, Hou, and Yu, 2022, ZooKeys, 1112: 142, discussed molecular relationships.

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