Gracixalus weii Liu, Peng, Wang, Feng, Shen, Li, Chen, Su, and Tang, 2025

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Gracixalus > Species: Gracixalus weii

Gracixalus weii Liu, Peng, Wang, Feng, Shen, Li, Chen, Su, and Tang, 2025, Zoosyst. Evol., 101: 409. Holotype: MT LS20240518008, by original designation. Type locality: "Leishan County (26.3733°N, 108.1967°E; elevation 1570 m a.s.l.), Guizhou Province, China". Zoobank Publication registration: 9DDB6550-7ECF-4A77-9966-F33D568D7667 (21 February 2025). 

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Leishan County, elevation 1570 m, Guizhou Province, China). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

The sister taxon of Gracixalus jinxiuensis according to the original publication, where molecular markers (16S mtDNA) and morphological characters were detailed. Ironically, this species was not compared to Gracixalus huaping, named in the same issue of the same journal and also posited to also be the sister taxon of Gracixalus jinxiuensis. Even though the type localities are separated by about 400 km, it would seem that the editors of this journal might have considered this to be a problem. 

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