New provincial records of the genus Limnonectes (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae) from South Central, Vietnam

By

Nguyen, Vien
Quang Phan, Tien
Do, Dang
Nguyen, Quang Truong
Ziegler, Thomas, 1970-
Pham, Cuong The
Pham, Anh Van

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-4-30

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

13

Pages

1--19

Subjects

Distribution , Limnonectes , Morphology , new records , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e146098

 

Abstract

Limnonectes is one of the poorly-known genera of amphibians in Vietnam. In the herpetofaunal list of Vietnam in 2009, only five species of the genus Limnonectes were recorded from the country. Recently, four new species (L. nguyenorum, L. quangninhensis, L. kiziriani and L. phuyenensis) and three new country records (L. gyldenstolpei, L. fastigatus and L. kohchangae) were reported from Vietnam.<br> Based on recent field-work in South Central of Vietnam, we report four new provincial records of the genus Limnonectes from Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa, Binh Thuan and Gia Lai Provinces, namely L. dabanus, L. fastigatus, L. limborgi and L. phuyenensis. In addition, morphological data and ecological notes of the aforementioned species are provided.