Xenophrys wuliangshanensis (Ye and Fei, 1995)
Megophrys wuliangshanensis Ye and Fei, 1995, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 4-5: 73-74. Holotype: CIB 890126, by original designation. Type locality: "Ximinxiang (24° 45′ N, 100° 75′ E), Wuliang-shan, Jingdong [county], Yunnan; altitude 2000 m", China.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) wuliangshanensis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.
Xenophrys wuliangshanensis — Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23. by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17.
English Names
Wuliangshan Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 122; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 45).
Wuliangshan's Horned Toad (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 60).
Distribution
Known from the type locality (Mount Wuliang, Yunnan, China); Nagaland, Assam, and Manipur, northeastern India; presumably in intervening Myanmar.
Comment
Previously considered to be part of Xenophrys minor (e. g, Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1960, Acta Zool. Sinica, 12: 149). Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 122-123, provided a brief account, figure, and map. In the Megophrys boettgeri group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 82. Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1117-1125, and Mathew and Sen, 2007, Cobra, Chennai, 1 (2): 22, provided records from Nagaland, northeastern India. Ningombam and Bordoloi, 2007, Zoos' Print J., 22: 2688-2690, provided a record for Manipur, northeastern India. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 447-451, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and spot map. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 60, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 214, provided a brief account (as Megophrys wuliangshanensis) including photographs. Sengupta, Hussain, Gogoi, Choudhury, Kalita, and Baruah, 2010, Hamadryad, 35: 30, provided a record for Assam, northeastern India.
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