First Record of the Genus Alcalus(Anura,Ceratobatrachidae)and Describe a New Species from Yunnan,China
摘要The anuran family Ceratobatrachidae is one of the most speciose groups of amphibians,but the geographic distributions of many genera and species await documentation.During the field survey of Tongbiguan Provincial Nature Reserve in southwestern Yunnan Province,China,at the China-Myanmar border region,we collected several frogs that resemble the genus Alcalus,which was previously known from Indochina only.Based on mitochondrial phylogeny,our newly collected specimens are sister to Alcalus fontinalis Boruah,Narayanan,Gerard,Das,and Deepak,2023 from Northeast India,but it differs from the latter by a suit of characters,including in differences in body size,head length,snout length,tympanum diameter,eye diameter,forearm length,toe webbing formula,relative length of fingers and toes,and dorsal pattern and coloration.Herein,based on the integration of morphological and genetic data,we report the genus Alcalus from China for the first time and describe a new species from China-Myanmar border region.Our study further demonstrates that southern section of the Gaoligong Mountain has a rich diversity of amphibians that warrant continuous survey efforts.Future fieldwork in these mountains is needed to better understand and fully uncover the species richness in this border region.
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