Raorchestes huanglianshan Jiang, Wang, Ren, and Li, 2020

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Raorchestes > Species: Raorchestes huanglianshan

Raorchestes huanglianshan Jiang, Wang, Ren, and Li in Jiang, Ren, Wang, Guo, Wang, Liu, Jiang, and Li, 2020, Asian Herpetol. Res., 11: 276. Holotype: CIB 116353, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Huanglian (22.932255°N, 102.288264°E, altitude 1823 m), Lvchun, Yunnan, China".  

English Names

Huanglianshan Bush Frog (original publication). 

Huanglianshan Shrub Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 59). 

Distribution

Mount Huanlian, Lychun, Yunnan, China, and Chiangmai, Thailand. 

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Previously confused with Raorchestes menglaensis according to the original publication. Zhang, Wu, Yan, Song, Zhang, and Yuan, 2022, Herpetol. Notes, 15: 579–582, reported on direct development in captivity. 

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