Leptobrachium tengchongense Yang, Wang, and Chan, 2016

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachium > Species: Leptobrachium tengchongense

Leptobrachium tengchongense Yang, Wang, and Chan, 2016, Zootaxa, 4150: 136. Holotype: SYS a004603, by original designation. Type locality: "on the floor in shrub about 3 m from a rocky stream. The stream was 3–5 m wide, flowing pass mature montane evergreen broadleaf forest at Datang substation of the Tengchong Section of Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, China (25°44′26.23″ N, 98°41′45.74″E, 2060 m above sea level)". Zoobank publication registration: 8F929395-D423-4B3F-BB5F-C1D08B0FD8BE

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Datang substation of the Tengchong Section of Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, China, 2060 m elevation). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

The sister taxon of Leptobrachium promustache + Leptobrachium ailaonicum, according to the original publication. 

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