Leptobrachella kajangensis (Grismer, Grismer, and Youmans, 2004)

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

Leptolalax kajangensis Grismer, Grismer, and Youmans, 2004, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 10: 8. Holotype: ZRC 1.7714, by original designation. Type locality: "inside Gua [Cave] Tengkuk Air, Gunung Kajang, Pulau Tioman, Pahang, West Malaysia at 1000 m in elevation".

Leptolalax (Leptolalax) kajangensisDelorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 15.

Leptobrachella kajangensis — 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

Kajang Slender Litter Frog (http://amphibia.my/). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality on Pulau Tioman, West Malaysia, 1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular)

Endemic: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular)

Comment

See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 437. See account by Grismer, 2012, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Seribuat Arch.: 39-40.

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