Xenophrys minor Stejneger, 1926
Megophrys minor Stejneger, 1926, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 39: 53. Holotype: USNM 68816, by original designation. Type locality: "On mountain, about 3000 feet altitude, above Kwanghsien [now Guan Xian, now Dujiangyan City], 55 kilometers northwest of Chengtu [= Chengdu], Szechwan [=Sichuan], China".
Megophrys (Megophrys) minor — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472.
Megophrys minor minor — Ye and Fei, 1995, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 4-5: 75-76.
Panophrys minor — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) minor — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.
Megophrys minor minor — Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 118.
Xenophrys minor — Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23. by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17.
English Names
Kwangshien Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).
Little Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 118).
Dwarf Horned Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 84).
Tiny Spadefoot Toad (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 14).
Distribution
Guizhou, eastern Xizang, Sichuan, northeastern and eastern Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, and western Guangxi, China; northwestern Vietnam (Lao Cai Province); Thailand (Chang Mai); presumably in intervening Laos and adjacent Myanmar.
Comment
See Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 68, and Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 185-191. See comments under Xenophrys wuliangshanensis and Xenophrys wushanensis. See account s by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 42-46; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 170. Megophrys minor minor, Megophrys minor binchuanensis, and Megophrys brachykolos (considered by some to be a race of Megophrys minor) are allopatric populations. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 118-119, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 148-149, provided a brief account and illustration (as Megophrys minor). Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 45, provided an account (as Megophrys minor) for Guangxi. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 83, provided the Vietnam component of the range statement. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 45-46. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 14, provided a specific locality for Vietnam. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 30-31, provided a brief account (as Megophrys minor) for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 438-443, provided an account for China and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 199, provided a brief account including photographs.
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