First national record of Microhyla hmongorum Hoang, Nguyen, Phan, Pham, Ninh, Wang, Jiang, Ziegler and Nguyen, 2022 (Anura, Microhylidae, Microhyla) in China

By

Wu, Yun-He
Yu, Zhong-Bin
Lu, Chen-Qi
Felista, Kasyoka Kilunda
Hou, Shao-Bing
Jin, Jieqiong
Chen, Jinmin
Zhang, Dong-Ru
Yuan, Zhiyong
Che, Jing

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-04-10

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

11

Pages

1--11

Subjects

Amphibia , China , Microhyla hmongorum , new record

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e103580
eLocator: e103580

 

Abstract

To date, 10 species of the genus Microhyla have been recorded in China, of which six were distributed in Yunnan Province. Microhyla hmongorum Hoang, Nguyen, Phan, Pham, Ninh, Wang, Jiang, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2022 was also speculated to be distributed in Xishuangbana, Yunnan Province, China. However, there is no evidence of documentation of M. hmongorum.<br> We report the first country record of Microhyla hmongorum, based on specimens collected from Yunnan border region. Morphologically, the specimen was consistent with the original descriptions of M. hmongorum. Phylogenetically, the sequences of the specimens from China clustered with the sequence of type specimens of M. hmongorum from Vietnam, with uncorrected pairwise distances of 0.9% at the 16S gene fragment analysed. Therefore, we report M. hmongorum as a new record species in China.