Xenophrys kuatunensis (Pope, 1929)
Megalophrys kuatunensis Pope, 1929, Am. Mus. Novit., 352: 1. Holotype: AMNH 30126, by original designation. Type locality: "Kuatun Village, Ch'ungan Hsien, northwestern Fukien [= Fujian] Province, China; altitude 5500-6000 feet", China.
Megophrys kuatunensis — Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 20. Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 65.
Megophrys (Megophrys) kuatunensis — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472.
Panophrys kuatunensis — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) kuatunesis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.
Xenophrys kuatunensis — Sukumaran, 2003 "2002", Hamadryad, 27: 4. Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23; by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17.
English Names
Kuatun Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).
Kuatun Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 116).
Distribution
Fujian, southern Hunan, Guangdong, southern Anhui, and southern Zhejiang, China; northern Vietnam (Sa Pa, Lao Cai Province).
Comment
Closely allied to Megophrys boettgeri and Megophrys minor, according to Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 444. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 116-177, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 37-38, provided an account (as Megophrys kuatunensis) for Zhejiang. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 38, provided an account (as Megophrys kuatunensis) for Guangxi. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 83, provided the Vietnam component of range. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 14), provided the specific record for Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. In the Megophrys boettgeri group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 82. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 425-429, provided an account for China and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 196, provided a brief account (as Megophrys kuatunensis) including photographs.
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