Leptobrachella tuberosa (Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999)

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

Leptolalax tuberosus Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 5. Holotype: FMNH 252844, by original designation. Type locality: "Kon Cha Rang Village (1000–1200 m above sea level [ASL]), An Khe District, Gia-Lai Province, Vietnam".

Leptolalax (Lalax) tuberosusDelorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 14.

Leptolalax (Lalos) tuberosus — Dubois, Grosjean, Ohler, Adler, and Zhao, 2010, Zootaxa, 2493: 67.

Leptobrachella tuberosa — 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, by implication. 

English Names

Granular Toad (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 13).

Tuberculate Litter Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 31). 

Distribution

Known only An Khe District and Kon Ka Kinh National Park (Gia Lai Province), Tra My District (Quang Nam Province), and A Luoi District, (Thua Thien-Hue Province), central highlands of Vietnam, 900–1200 m elevation; expected in southeastern Laos and extreme northeastern Cambodia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Cambodia, Laos

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

Quam Nam, Vietnam, record by Bain and Nguyen, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 145. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 108, provided a record from Thua Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam, and briefly discussed the range. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 437. See comments by Rowley, Hoang, Le, Dau, and Cao, 2010, Zootaxa, 2660: 33–45. Ohler, Wollenberg, Grosjean, Hendrix, Vences, Ziegler, and Dubois, 2011, Zootaxa, 3147: 1–83, characterized the species comparatively. 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: 169, provided the record for Kon Ka Kinh National Park, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam.  

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