New records of megophryids (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Son La Province, Vietnam

By

Pham, Anh
Pham, Cuong The
Doan, Lan
Ziegler, Thomas, 1970-
Nguyen, Quang Truong

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-11-07

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

7

Pages

1--2

Subjects

Distribution , Morphology , taxonomy.

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e39140
eLocator: e39140

 

Abstract

The family Megophryidae is one of the most poorly known groups of amphibians in Son La Province, Vietnam. In the herpetofaunal list of Vietnam in 2009 only two species of megophryids were recorded from this province and recent studies have documented five additional species of Megophryidae from Son La Province.<br> Based on recent field work in northern Vietnam, we report six new provincial records of the family Megophryidae from Son La Province, namely Leptobrachium ailaonicum, Leptobrachella sungi, Megophrys feae, M. jingdongensis, M. microstoma and M. parva. In addition, morphological data were provided for each species, based on newly collected specimens. Our findings bring the species number of the family Megophryidae to 13 in Son La Province.