A new species of the genus Rana from Henan, central China (Anura, Ranidae)

By

Zhao, Haipeng
Yang, Junxiao
Wang, Chunping
Li, Pipeng
Murphy, Robert W. (Robert Ward), 1948-
Che, Jing
Yuan, Zhiyong

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

694

Pages

95-108

Subjects

Brown frog , DNA barcode , Genealogy , Rana luanchuanensis sp. n

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.694.12513

 

Abstract

A new species of brown frog Rana luanchuanensis Zhao & Yuan, sp. n. is described from Luanchuan County, western Henan, central China. The mitochondrial genealogy suggests that the new species is the sister taxon to the clade including R. amurensis and R. coreana, and is separated by uncorrected pairwise distances more than 12.5%. Morphologically, this new species differs from its congeners by a suite of characters. Analyses of partial sequences of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) resolve the new species as a single matriline.