Boulenophrys daweimontis (Rao and Yang, 1997)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Boulenophrys > Species: Boulenophrys daweimontis

English Names

Dawei Eyebrow Toad (Le, Pham, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2015, Asian Herpetol. Res., 6:  67). 

Dawei Horned Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 37). 

Distribution

Mount Dawei, Pingbian County, Yunnan, China; expected in adjacent Lao Cai Province, but recorded in Dien Bien Province, Son La, and Ha Giang provinces, northern Vietnam. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Vietnam

Comment

This taxon was named in Megophrys in the same paper where (arguably) the species was being transferred to Panophrys. In the Megophrys parva group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 82. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 28-29, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 455-457, provided an account for China and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 216, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Le, Pham, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2015, Asian Herpetol. Res., 6:  66–72, provided records for Vietnam. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 686–688, provided an account, photogrphs, and dot map for China, as Xenophrys daweimontis. Luong, Nguyen, Pham, and Nguyen, 2018, Proc. 3rd Natl. Sci. Conf. Biol. Res. Teaching Vietnam: 284–290, provided a record for Ha Giang Province, Vietnam, and commented on morphology and habitat. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 417–418, provided an account and included the species in their Boulenophrys omeimontis group. 

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