Scutiger tengchongensis Yang and Huang, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Scutiger > Species: Scutiger tengchongensis

Scutiger tengchongensis Yang and Huang, 2019, Copeia, 107: 12. Holotype: SYS a005793, by original designation. Type locality: "China, Yunnan Province, Tengchong City, Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Xiaotianhe substation, headstream of Xunmahe River, 25°34′45.52″N, 98°45′08.70″E, 3000 m a.s.l.". Zoobank publication registration: 19581BDF-5D02-4094-A839-34B68B5F3F07

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Tengchong section of Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Tengchong city, Yunnan Province, China, 3000 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

The sister taxon of Scutiger spinosus according to the original publication. 

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