Leptobrachium promustache (Rao, Wilkinson, and Zhang, 2006)
Vibrissaphora promustache Rao, Wilkinson, and Zhang, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 90. Holotype: KIZ 03005, by original designation. Type locality: "a forest stream near the top of Mount Dawei, Pingbian County, Yunnan Province, China, elevation 2089 m, 22° 54′ 28.5″ N, 103° 41′ 45.1″ E".
Leptobrachium promustache — Rao and Wilkinson, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 69.
Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) promustache — Matsui, Hamidy, Murphy, Khonsue, Yambun, Shimada, Norhayati, Daicus, and Jiang, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 269.
English Names
Primary Moustache Toad (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 168).
Distribution
Known from the type locality, near the top of Mount Dawei Pingbian County, Yunnan Province, China, 2089 m elevation; also reported for Van Ban District, Lao Cai Province, in northwestern Vietnam from between 1300-1400 m.
Comment
Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 38-39, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 27-29, provided the first record for Vietnam and noted that the range of this species overlaps the type locality of Leptobrachium chapaense and may be confused with that species in museum collections. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 278-281, provided an account, a spot map for China, and an illustration. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 168, provided a brief account including photographs.
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