Boulenophrys fansipanensis (Tapley, Cutajar, Mahony, Nguyen, Dau, Luong, Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Portway, Luong, and Rowley, 2018)

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

Megophrys (Panophrys) fansipanensis Tapley, Cutajar, Mahony, Nguyen, Dau, Luong, Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Portway, Luong, and Rowley, 2018, Zootaxa, 4508: 307. Holotype: VNMN 2018.01, by original designation. Type locality: "found perched on a stick 3 m above a 2 m wide low-gradient stream in disturbed evergreen forest on Mount Fansipan, Hoang Lien National Park (HLNP), Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam (22.32827° N, 103.78184° E, 2242 m asl; . . .)". Zoobank publication registration: DE7FE16E-6EC9-425A-BB63-329CD2C11183

Panophrys fansipanensis — Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 14.

Boulenophrys fansipanensis — Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 403.

English Names

Mount Fansipan horned frog (original publication). 

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

Distribution

Mount Fansipan at elevations between 2200 and 2813 m, Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam; presumably following this mountain ridgeline into Yunnan, China. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

The sister taxon of an unnamed species + Megophrys hoanglienensis according to the original publication. Tapley, Nguyen, Cutajar, Nguyen, Portway, Luong, and Rowley, 2020, Zootaxa, 4845: 35–52, provided a detailed description of larval morphology. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 380–450, regarded this species as unassigned to species group. 

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