Morphology, molecular genetics, and acoustics reveal two new species of the genus Leptobrachella from northwestern Guizhou Province, China (Anura, Megophryidae)

By

Wang, Jian (Herpetologist)
Li, Yulong
Li, Yao
Chen, Hong-Hui
Zeng, Yajun
Shen, Jinmin
Wang, Ying-Yong

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

848

Pages

119-154

Subjects

ACOUSTICS , L. purpuraventra sp. nov , Leptobrachella bijie sp. nov , molecular phylogeny , Morphology , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.848.29181

 

Abstract

Two new species of the genusLeptobrachellaSmith, 1925,L.bijieJ. Wang, Y.L. Li, Y. Li, H.H. Chen & Y.Y. Wang,sp. nov.andL.purpuraventraJ. Wang, Y.L. Li, Y. Li, H.H. Chen & Y.Y. Wang,sp. nov., were described from northwestern Guizhou Province, China based on a combination of acoustic, molecular, and morphological data. The new discoveries bring the total number of this genus to 73, with 16 congeners recorded in China, and represent the second and third species of the genus reported from Guizhou Province.