Leptobrachella isos (Rowley, Stuart, Neang, Hoang, Dau, Nguyen, and Emmett, 2015)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachella > Species: Leptobrachella isos

Leptolalax isos Rowley, Stuart, Neang, Hoang, Dau, Nguyen, and Emmett, 2015, Zootaxa, 4039: 404. Holotype: VNMN A 2015.4/AMS R 176480, by original designation. Type locality: "on wet rock at edge of 3–4 m wide stream in evergreen forest at Kon Ka Kinh National Park, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam (14.2193º N, 108.3171º E, 985 m; ...). 

Leptobrachella isos — Chen, Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Lathrop, Wu, Zhou, Yuan, Jin, Chen, Liu, Nguyen, Nguyen, Duong, Eto, Nishikawa, Matsui, Orlov, Stuart, Brown, Rowley, Murphy, Wang, and Che, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 124: 162, by implication.

English Names

Similar Litter Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 30). 

Distribution

Mid-high elevations (ca. 650–1100 m) in the western and southern slopes of the Kon Tum Plateau of central Vietnam and adjacent northeastern Cambodia; expected in adjacent southeastern Laos.   

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cambodia, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Laos

Comment

The sister taxon of Leptolalax firthi according to the original publication. Chen, Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Lathrop, Wu, Zhou, Yuan, Jin, Chen, Liu, Nguyen, Nguyen, Duong, Eto, Nishikawa, Matsui, Orlov, Stuart, Brown, Rowley, Murphy, Wang, and Che, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 124: 169, provided a record for Virachey National Park, Ratanakiri, Cambodia. 

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