Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Megophrys palpebralespinosa Bourret, 1937, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1937: 16. Syntypes: Lab. Sci. Univ. Hanoi B. 34, 146-149, 201, by original designation; now MNHNP 48.114-116 according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 12). Type locality: "Chapa", Tonkin, Vietnam.

Megophrys (Megophrys) palpebralespinosa — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472.

Panophrys palpebralespinosa — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98-99.

Megophrys (Xenophrys) palpebralespinosa — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.

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

English Names

Tonkin Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86; Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 15).

Rough-skinned Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 120).

Distribution

Border area of northern Vietnam and adjacent Yunnan and Guangxi, China, and Phongsaly Province, Laos.

Comment

See accounts by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 204-205; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 57; Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 58-60; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 120-121. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 15, provided specific localities for Vietnam and (p. 147) a photograph. In the Megophrys parva group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 82. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 474, provided the Laos record. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 29-30, provided a brief account (as Megophrys palpebralespinosa) for Yunnan, China. Mo, Zhou, Xie, and Chen, 2007, Herpetol. Sinica, 11: 15-18, reported the species in Guangxi, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 461-464, provided an account for China and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 204, provided a brief account (as Megophrys palpebralespinosa) including photographs of specimens and habitat.

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