Kurixalus lenquanensis Yu, Wang, Hou, Rao, and Yang, 2017

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Kurixalus > Species: Kurixalus lenquanensis

Kurixalus lenquanensis Yu, Wang, Hou, Rao, and Yang, 2017, ZooKeys, 694: 80. Holotype: KIZ 170180Y, by original designation. Type locality: "Lenquan Village (23°12'52"N, 103°22'34"E, 1622 m elevation; Fig. 1), Mengzi City, Yunnan Province, China". http://zoobank.org/597FB4AE-5B50-4A57-9400-B6EBB36EAC4F 

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from Lenquan Village (Mengzi City), Shilin, and Yangjiatian Village (Gejiu City), southeastern Yunnan, China, elevation 1622 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

The sister taxon of Kurixalus idootocus according to the original publication, but subsequently placed as the sister of a clade composed of Kurixalus raoi, Kurixalus silvaenaias, Kurixalus idiootocus and Kurixalus inexpectatus according to Mo, Sun, Chen, Yu, and Du, 2023, Animals, 13 (2754): 1–13. Pang, Tang, Yu, and Zhou, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e130411): 1–14, provided the first description a female and provided a genetically-confirmed record from Shilin, Yunnan, China, and provided a dot map of the species. 

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