Scutiger brevipes (Liu, 1950)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Scutiger > Species: Scutiger brevipes

Aelurophryne brevipes Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 125. Holotype: FMNH 49393, by original designation. Type locality: "Taining [= Qianning], 11,500 feet, Sikang [now part of Sichuan], China".

Scutiger brevipesMyers and Leviton, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 290. Fu, Lathrop, and Murphy, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 32-37.

Scutiger (Aelurophryne) brevipesYe and Fei, 1993, Acta Zool. Sinica, 39: 444. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 138.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Taining, Daofu County, Sichuan, China).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Scutiger glandulatus, by Fu, Lathrop, and Murphy, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 32-37, where it had been placed by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 110. See account by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 138. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 231, retained this taxon as a synonym of Scutiger glandulatus, but did not address the evidence of Fu, Lathrop, and Murphy, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 32-37. See Khatiwada, Shu, Subedi, Wang, Ohler, Cannatella, Xie, and Jiang, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 139–157, for comments on morphology.  

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