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Xenophrys auralensis (Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Genus: Xenophrys

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Megophrys (Xenophrys) auralensis Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 468. Holotype: MNHNP 2001.0209, by original designation. Type locality: "Phnom (Mount) Aural in the Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary, Kampong Speu Province, Southwest Cambodia (UTM 1326600N 0309200E) . . . . at an altitude of 800 m a.m.s.l. . . . from a cascade section of a mountain steam in hill evergreen forest".

Xenophrys auralensis — Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23. by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17.

Megophrys auralensis — Stuart and Emmett, 2006, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 109: 6.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from Mount Aural, Cambodia.

Comment

Most similar to Xenophrys major according to the original publication. Stuart and Emmett, 2006, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 109: 6, noted a collection subsequent to the type series.

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