Ophryophryne gerti (Ohler, 2003)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Ophryophryne > Species: Ophryophryne gerti

Ophryophryne gerti Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 25. Holotype: BMNH 1921.4.1.324, by original designation. Type locality: "Cam Ly (river), south-east of Da Lat (11° 56′ N, 108° 25′ E), Lang Bian Plateau, sLam Dong Province, Vietnam".

Megophrys (Ophryophryne) gerti — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755. 

Ophryophryne gerti — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 106: 40; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 40.

English Names

Gert's Mountain Toad (Poyarkov, Duong, Orlov, Gogoleva, Vassilieva, Nguyen, Nguyen, Nguyen, Che, and Mahony, 2017, ZooKeys, 672: 78). 

Gertis’ Mountain Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 34). 

Distribution

Langbian Plateau in southern Vietnam (Lam Dong, Dak Lak, Binh Dinh, and Phen Yu provinces, Vietnam (700–2000 m). Other records from Vietnam and Laos require confirmation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

The epithet gerti is a noun in apposition, not a genitive, as noted in the original publication. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 475, provided a record for Champasak Province, Laos. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 108, provided records from Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Name provinces, Vietnam, and briefly discussed the range. Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23–42, tentatively regarded the specimens of Ophryophryne microstoma reported by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 8, as Ophryophryne gertiPoyarkov, Duong, Orlov, Gogoleva, Vassilieva, Nguyen, Nguyen, Nguyen, Che, and Mahony, 2017, ZooKeys, 672: 49–120, redelimited the species (pp. 77–81) and provided genetically confirmed records from Dak Lake Province, Vietnam. Do, Ngo, and Nguyen, 2017, Hue Univ. J. Sci: Nat. Sci., 126: 84, provided the several records from Phu Yen Province, southern Vietnam. Duong and Ngo, 2022, Herpetol. Notes, 15: 751–762, discussed range in Vietnam and provided records for Binh Dinh Province.  

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