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Zhangixalus achantharrhena (Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002)
Rhacophorus achantharrhena Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 49. Holotype: UTA A53961, by original designation. Type locality: "western slope of Bukit Kaba, Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia, 03° 30′ 02″ S, 102° 38′ 08″ E, 1415 m".
Zhangixalus achantharrhena — Jiang, Jiang, Ren, Wu, and Li, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 7.
Rhacophorus (Zhangixalus) acantharrehena — Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication.
Common Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality on the western slope of Bukit Kaba and the southeastern slope of Gunung Dempo, Sumatra, Indonesia; expected elsewhere on the highlands along the western edge of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia
Endemic: Indonesia
Comment
Most similar to Rhacophorus dulitensis and Rhacophorus prominanus according to the original publication. O'Connell, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Fujita, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 123: 101–112, discussed (as Rhacophorus) molecular phylogenetics and biogeography.
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