Boulenophrys sangzhiensis (Jiang, Ye, and Fei, 2008)

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

Megophrys sangzhiensis Jiang, Ye, and Fei, 2008, Zool. Res., Kunming, 29: 219. Holotype: CIB 200078, by original designation. Type locality: "Sangzhi County, Hunan Province in China".

Xenophrys (Xenophrys) sangzhiensis — Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 712;

Xenophrys (Panophrys) sangzhiensis — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 109: 41.

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

Panophrys sangzhiensisLyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 15. 

Boulenophrys sangzhiensis — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 414 (by implication); Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 404.

English Names

Sangzhi Horned Toad (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 240). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Mount Taiping, Sangzhi County, northern Hunan Province, China).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Most similar to Megophrys spinata and Megophrys caudoprocta according to the original publication. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 400-, provided an account (as Megophrys), illustration of the holotype, and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 212, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 240, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 712–714, provided an account, photographs, and spot map, as Xenophrys sangzhiensis. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 162–165, provided a detailed account.. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 162–165, provided a detailed account for Hunan. China.

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