Leptobrachella picta (Malkmus, 1992)

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

Leptolalax pictus Malkmus, 1992, Sauria, Berlin, 14: 3. Holotype: ZFMK 51762, by original designation. Type locality: "Sungei Langanan am Südosthang des Mount Kinabalu, 800 m NN. "

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

Leptobrachella picta — 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

None noted.

Distribution

Higher elevations of the Crocker Range, Sabah and eastern Sarawak (Malaysia) as well as in adjacent northeastern Kalimantan, Indonesia, 500-1500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Comment

See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 78. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 103-104, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 437.

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