Leptobrachium liui (Pope, 1947)
Vibrissaphora liui Pope, 1947, Copeia, 1947: 109. Holotype: FMNH 24427, by original designation. Type locality: "region of San Chiang [= Sangang], Ch'ungan Hsien [now Wuyishan City], Fukien [=Fujian] Province, China".
Vibrissaphora yaoshanensis Liu and Hu In Liu, Hu, Tian, and Wu, 1978, Mater. Herpetol. Res., 4: 18. Holotype: CIB 61001, by original designation. Type locality: Yangliuchong, Jinxiu, Yaoshan, Guangxi, altitude 1200 m, China. Synonymy by Wu and Zhao, 1987, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 6 (3): 42-44; Fei, Ye, Jiang, Cheng, Cai, Tang, Cai, Gao, and Wei, 1995, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 4-5: 68; Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 27, and Zheng, Li, and Fu, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 704.
Leptobrachium (Leptobrachium) liui — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 476. .
Vibrissaphora liui — Liu, Hu, and Zhao, 1980, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, 3 (1): 3. Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 126.
Vibrissaphora jiulongshanensis Wei and Zhao, 1981, J. Hangzhou Univ., 8: 300. Types: HU 800013, by original designation. Type locality: "Jiulongshan of Shuichangxian, Zhejiang [Province], 900 m", China. Synonymy by Huang, Gu, and Zong, 1984, J. Hangzhou Normal College (Nat. Hist.), 1984: 14. Synonymy confirmed by Zheng, Li, and Fu, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 704.
Vibrissaphora yaoshanensis — Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 156.
Vibrissaphora liui yaoshanensis — Fei, Ye, Jiang, Cheng, Cai, Tang, Cai, Gao, and Wei, 1995, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 4-5: 68.
Vibrissaphora liui liui — Fei, Ye, Jiang, Cheng, Cai, Tang, Cai, Gao, and Wei, 1995, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 4-5: 68.
Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) liui liui — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 27.
Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) liui yaoshanense — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 27.
Vibrissaphora yaoshanensis — Ho, Lathrop, Murphy, and Orlov, 1999, Russ. J. Herpetol., 6: 49. Rao and Wilkinson, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 68-69.
Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) liui — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 12. Matsui, Hamidy, Murphy, Khonsue, Yambun, Shimada, Norhayati, Daicus, and Jiang, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 269.
Leptobrachium liui — Rao and Wilkinson, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 69.
Leptobrachium yaoshanense — Rao and Wilkinson, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 69.
English Names
Pope's Spiny Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 87).
Chong'an Moustache Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 96).
Yaoshan Moustache Toad (Leptobrachium yaoshanense [no longer recognized]: Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 98).
Distribution
Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, China.
Comment
Reviewed (as Vibrissaphora liui) by Liu, Hu, and Zhao, 1980, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, 3 (1): 1-9. See Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 447-450 (as Vibrissaphora pelodytoides). Pope, 1947, Copeia, 1947: 109-112 (as Vibrissaphora liui). See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 155; Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 27; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 98-99. See comment under Leptobrachium hasseltii. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 40-43, provided an account (as Vibrissaphora liui) for Zhejiang populations. In the Vibrissaphora liui group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 70. Reviewed (as Vibrissaphora yaoshanensis) by Liu, Hu, and Zhao, 1980, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, 3 (1): 1-9. The status of Leptobrachium yaoshanense is arguable at this point in time (2008, DRF) with molecular evidence arguing for both species boundaries (e.g., Rao and Wilkinson, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 61-73) and the lack thereof (e.g., Zheng, Li, and Fu, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 695-707). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 286-297, provided accounts for the two nominal subspecies, spot maps, and illustrations. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 165-166, provided brief accounts (as Vibrissaphora liu liu, page 165; and Vibrissaphora liui yaoshanensis) including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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