Leptobrachium tagbanorum Brown, Siler, Diesmos, and Alcala, 2010

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

Leptobrachium tagbanorum Brown, Siler, Diesmos, and Alcala, 2010 "2009", Herpetol. Monogr., 23: 23. Holotype: PNM 9560, by original designation. Type locality: "Philippines, Palawan Island, Palawan Province, Municipality of Puerto Princesa City, Barangay Irawan, Irawan Watershed (N: 9.8333°, E 118.650°; WGS84)".

Leptobrachium (Leptobrachium) tagbanorum — Matsui, 2013, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 32: 186. 

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Palawan Island, including the municipalities of Irawan, Aborlan, Quezon, Nara, Puerta Princesa, and Brookes Point, Philippines.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

Confused with Leptobrachium hasseltii prior to its naming according to the original publication. In the Leptobrachium montanum complex of Al-Razi, Maria, and Poyarkov, 2021, J. Nat. Hist., London, 55: 85–114, who reported on molecular systematics. 

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