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Zoological Research
Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
ISSN: 2095-8137
Vol. 28, No. 5, 2007, pp. 545-550
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Bioline Code: zr07083
Full paper language: Chinese
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Zoological Research, Vol. 28, No. 5, 2007, pp. 545-550
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A New Ranidae Species from China - Limnonectes bannaensis (Ranidae: Anura)
YE, Chang-yuan; FEI, Liang; XIE, Feng & JIANG, Jian-ping
Abstract
A new, fanged frog Limnonectes bannaensis sp. nov. (Holotype: CIB 570798, adult male, SVL 87.5 mm)
has been recognized based on the collections from Jinghong City and Mengla County, Yunnan Province in China, which
was previously recognized as L. kuhlii (Tschudi). This new species can be distinguished from the latter by a combination
of the following characteristics: (1) Skin on the body is smooth, with few fine folds on the back and a few small rounded
tubercles scattered on the rear of the body; (2) Dorsum is brownish or gray brown in color, black stripes are present on
areas around the folds; (3) the tail of tadpoles from Mengyang have black spots, but the rear half is not black; (4)
Karyotype: 2n = 22 (20 m+2 st); the chromosome length decreases gradually and does not form distinct size groups.
Limnonectes kuhlii has: (1) Skin on its body is very wrinkled, covered densely with star-shaped tubercles; (2) marbled
black to complete black all over the back; (3) the tadpoles from Java, the terminal half of their tail is black in color; (4)
Karyotype: 2n = 26, consists of five large pairs and eight small pairs.
Keywords
Amphibia; Anura, Ranidae; Limnonectes; Limnonectes bannaensis; New species
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