Leptobrachium huashen Fei and Ye, 2005

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachium > Species: Leptobrachium huashen

Leptobrachium huashen Fei and Ye, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 69, 194, 253. Holotype: CIB 581676, by original designation. Type locality: "Xinminxiang, Jingdong (24° 28′ N, 101° 05′ E), Yunnan, altitude 2030 m", China.″

Leptobrachium (Leptobrachium) huashenDelorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 12.

Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) huashen — Matsui, 2013, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 32: 186, by implication. 

English Names

Huashen Pseudomoustache Toad (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 188). 

Huashen Spadefoot Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 32). 

White-eyed Litter Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 136).

Blue Bicolor-eyed Toadfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 27).

Distribution

Central, southern and western Yunnan, China, 1000 to 2400 m elevation, to Myitkyina District, Kachin, Myanmar, northern Thailand, and approaching the border areas of Laos and northwestern Vietnam, where it is expected.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Myanmar, Thailand

Likely/Controversially Present: Laos, Vietnam

Comment

Similar to Leptobrachium chapaense according to the original publication. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 261-, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and a spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 160, provided a brief account including photographs. Matsui, Hamidy, Murphy, Khonsue, Yambun Imbun, Shimada, Ahmad, Belabut, and Jiang, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 259–272, discussed the possibility of unnamed species associated with this lineage. Wogan, 2012, Zootaxa, 3415: 33, commented on the species and provided the first record for Myanmar. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 188, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 462–465, provided an account, photograph, and dot map. Pawangkhanant, Poyarkov, Duong, Naiduangchan, and Suwannapoom, 2018, PeerJ, 6 (e3584): 1–27, provided comparative morphological data. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 136–137, provided a brief account (photograph, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 27, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.  

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