Scutiger wuguanfui Jiang, Rao, Yuan, Wang, Li, Hou, Che, and Che, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Scutiger > Species: Scutiger wuguanfui

Scutiger wuguanfui Jiang, Rao, Yuan, Wang, Li, Hou, Che, and Che, 2012, Zootaxa, 3388: 30. Holotype: KIZ 011111, by original designation. Type locality: "from 62K of Medog (Muotuo County), Tibet (Xizang Autonomous Region), People’s Republic of China (29° 42′ 33.6″ N, 95° 34′ 56.0″ E, elevation 2705 m)".

Scutiger (Aelurophryne) wuguanfui — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 169. 

English Names

Wu's Lazy Toad (original publication).

Medog Lazy Toad (original publication).

Medog Cat-eyed Toad (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 548). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (62 km from Medog, Muotuo County, Xizang, China, at 29° 42′ 33.6″ N, 95° 34′ 56.0″ E, elevation 2705 m).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

 Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 169, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 548–551, provided an account, photograph, and dot map. See Khatiwada, Shu, Subedi, Wang, Ohler, Cannatella, Xie, and Jiang, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 139–157, for comments on morphology. See account, dot map, and photographs of adults and larvae by Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 96–101.  

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