Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Megophrys shapingensis Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 194. Holotype: FMNH 49405, by original designation. Type locality: "Shaping, Opienhsien [=Ebian County], Szechwan [=Sichuan]", China.

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

Atympanophrys shapingensis — Tian and Hu, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 43. Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 115.

Megophrys (Atympanophrys) shapingensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 23.

Megophrys shapingensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 205.

Xenophrys shapingensis — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 18.

English Names

Shaping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 85).

Shaping Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 106).

Distribution

Western Sichuan to the Hengduanshan of Yunnan, China.

Comment

See accounts by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 194-196; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 70; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 163; and (as Megorphrys shapingensis) by Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 106-107. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 142-143, provided a brief account and illustration (as Megophrys shapingensis). See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 46-47. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 356-363, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and spot map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 206-207, provided a brief account (as Megophrys shapingensis) including photographs.

External Links

Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.

• For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
• For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
• To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
• For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
• For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
• For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
• for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML