Xenophrys spinata (Liu and Hu, 1973)
Megophrys spinatus Liu and Hu In Hu, Zhao, and Liu, 1973, Acta Zool. Sinica, 19: 163. Holotype: CIB 63II0615, by original designation. Type locality: "Fang-xiang, Lei-shan Hsien, Kweichow [=Guizhou], altitude 1,100 m", China.
Megophrys (Megophrys) spinata — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) spinata — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.
Xenophrys spinata — Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23. by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17.
English Names
Spiny Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).
Spiny-fingered Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 114).
Distribution
Sichuan, Guizhou, northeastern Yunnan, and northern Guangxi, China.
Comment
Related closely to Megophrys omeimontis according to the original publication. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 62-63; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 114-115, provided brief accounts, maps, and figure. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 146, provided a brief account and illustration (as Megophrys spinata). Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 48, provided an account (as Megophrys spinatus) for Guangxi. In the Megophrys omeimontis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 79. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 33-34, provided a brief account (as Megophrys spinatus) for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 408-412, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 210-211, provided a brief account (as Megophrys spinata) including photographs.
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