Oreolalax

Oreolalax
Oreolalax longmenmontis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Megophryidae
Genus: Oreolalax
Myers and Leviton, 1962
Type species
Scutiger pingii
Liu [fr], 1943
Species

19 species (see text)

Synonyms[1]

Atympanolalax Fei and Ye, 2016 – coined as a subgenus of Oreolalax

Oreolalax is a genus of frogs in the family Megophryidae.[1][2] The common name for the genus is toothed toads. Most member species are endemic to southwestern China, with at least two species in northern Vietnam (Oreolalax sterlingae), and the newly discovered Oreolalax adelphos in 2024, and possibly extending into adjacent Laos.[1][3][4] There is also a population in Arunachal Pradesh (Northeast India) that has not yet been assigned to a species,[1] although it may rather be assigned to the genus Scutiger.[3]

Species

The genus contains the following species:[1][2]

  1. Oreolalax adelphos Nguyen, Tapley, Kane, Tran, Cui & Rowley, 2024[5]
  2. Oreolalax chuanbeiensis Tian, 1983
  3. Oreolalax granulosus Fei, Ye & Chen, 1990
  4. Oreolalax jingdongensis Ma, Yang & Li, 1983
  5. Oreolalax liangbeiensis Liu & Fei, 1979
  6. Oreolalax lichuanensis Hu & Fei, 1979
  7. Oreolalax longmenmontis Hou, Shi, Hu, Deng, Jiang, Xie & Wang, 2020
  8. Oreolalax major (Liu & Hu, 1960)
  9. Oreolalax multipunctatus Wu, Zhao, Inger & Shaffer, 1993
  10. Oreolalax nanjiangensis Fei & Ye, 1999
  11. Oreolalax omeimontis (Liu & Hu, 1960)
  12. Oreolalax pingii (Liu, 1943)
  13. Oreolalax popei (Liu, 1947)
  14. Oreolalax puxiongensis Liu & Fei, 1979
  15. Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu & Fei, 1979
  16. Oreolalax rugosus (Liu, 1943)
  17. Oreolalax schmidti (Liu, 1947)
  18. Oreolalax sterlingae Nguyen, Phung, Le, Ziegler & Böhme, 2013
  19. Oreolalax weigoldi (Vogt, 1924)
  20. Oreolalax xiangchengensis Fei & Huang, 1983

Endemic ranges

Many Oreolalax species are endemic to highly restricted geographical areas in the Eastern Himalayas, especially in Sichuan, China. The ranges often overlap with those of Scutiger species.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Frost, Darrel R. (2020). "Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Megophryidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b Hou, Yinmeng; Shi, Shengchao; Hu, Daming; Deng, Yue; Jiang, Jianping; Xie, Feng & Wang, Bin (2020). "A new species of the toothed toad Oreolalax (Anura, Megophryidae) from Sichuan Province, China". ZooKeys (929): 93–115. doi:10.3897/zookeys.929.49748. PMC 7192958. PMID 32377150.
  4. ^ Nguyen, Luan Thanh; Tapley, Benjamin; Kane, Daniel; Tran, Tuyet-Dzung Thi; Cui, Jiaxin; Rowley, Jodi J. L. (2024). "A new Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam". Zootaxa 5514 (6): 501–524.
  5. ^ Nguyen, Luan Thanh; Tapley, Benjamin; Kane, Daniel; Tran, Tuyet-Dzung Thi; Cui, Jiaxin; Rowley, Jodi J. L. (2024). "A new Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam". Zootaxa 5514 (6): 501–524.
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