Two new Leptobrachella species (Anura, Megophryidae) from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwestern China

Jian Wang; Zhi-Tong Lyu; Shuo Qi; Zhao-Chi Zeng; Wen-Xiang Zhang; Long-Shan Lu; Ying-Yong Wang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.995.55939

Two new Leptobrachella species (Anura, Megophryidae) from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwestern China

Zookeys. 2020 Nov 18:995:97-125. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.995.55939. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Jian Wang^{1

2}, Zhi-Tong Lyu¹, Shuo Qi¹, Zhao-Chi Zeng^{1

2}, Wen-Xiang Zhang³, Long-Shan Lu³, Ying-Yong Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol / The Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
² Shenzhen Shuanghuamu Biological Technology Co., Ltd, Shenzhen 51800, China.
³ Yunnan Huanglianshan National Nature Reserve, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province 662500, China.

Abstract

Two new toad species of the genus Leptobrachella are described from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of China, based on the combination of molecular and morphological data. The description of Leptobrachella aspera Wang, Lyu, Qi & Wang, sp. nov. from Huanglianshan Nature Reserve represents the thirteenth Leptobrachella species known from Yunnan Province, and the description of Leptobrachella dorsospina Wang, Lyu, Qi & Wang, sp. nov. from Yushe Forest Park represents the sixth Leptobrachella species known from Guizhou Province. These new discoveries further emphasize the extremely high diversity of the Leptobrachella toads in these regions.

Keywords: Leptobrachella aspera sp. nov.; Leptobrachella dorsospina sp. nov.; molecular phylogeny; morphology; taxonomy.

Jian Wang, Zhi-Tong Lyu, Shuo Qi, Zhao-Chi Zeng, Wen-Xiang Zhang, Long-Shan Lu, Ying-Yong Wang.