Leptobrachella macrops (Duong, Do, Ngo, Nguyen, and Poyarkov, 2018)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachella > Species: Leptobrachella macrops

Leptolalax macrops Duong, Do, Ngo, Nguyen, and Poyarkov, 2018, Zool. Res., Kunming, 39: 187. Holotype: PYU DTD-508, by original designation. Type locality: "Suoi Khi Stream, Hon Den Mt., Ea Ly and Ea Trol Commune border, Song Hinh District, Phu Yen Province, Vietnam (N12°52′47.0″, E108°49′51.1″; at an elevation of 500 m a.s.l.)". 

Leptobrachella macrops Duong, Do, Ngo, Nguyen, and Poyarkov, 2018, Zool. Res., Kunming, 39: 198. Alternative original name provided in addendum to bring original name into conformance with the synonymy of Leptolalax with Leptobrachella by Chen, Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Lathrop, Wu, Zhou, Yuan, Jin, Chen, Liu, Nguyen, Nguyen, Duong, Eto, Nishikawa, Matsui, Orlov, Stuart, Brown, Rowley, Murphy, Wang, and Che, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 124: 162. 

English Names

Big-eyed Litter Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Currently known from only two sites (~30 km from each other) in the tropical evergreen forests of Phu Yen Province (Hon Den Mountain, Ea Ly and Ea Trol Commune border, Song Hinh District) and Dak Lak Province (Chu Mu Mt., M’Drak District), both on the northeastern outcrops of the Langbian Plateau, 471 and 630 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

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