Xenophrys jingdongensis Fei and Ye, 1983
Megophrys omeimontis jingdongensis Fei and Ye In Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 51, 52. Holotype: CIB 583007, by original designation. Type locality: "Jingdong [County], Yunnan, alt. 2060 m", China.
Megophrys jingdongensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 102.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) jingdongensis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.
Xenophrys jingdongensis — Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23. by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17.
Xenophrys omeimontis jingdongensis — Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 31.
English Names
Jingdong Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 110).
Jingdong Spadefoot Toad (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 13).
Distribution
Yunnan (Mount Wuliang, Mount Ailao, Luchuan, Hekou and northwestern Guangxi, China; expected in adjacent northern Vietnam (Lao Cai Province), and possibly in northern Laos and extreme eastern Myanmar.
Comment
See comment under Xenophrys omeimontis for literature that treated this taxon as a subspecies of that taxon. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 57-58; and Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 29-30, provided a brief accounts (as Megophrys omeimontis jingdonensis) for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 386-391, provided an account and spot map (as Megophrys jingdongensis).
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