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A New Species of Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hassalt, 1822 (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Southeastern Yunnan, China

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Title: A New Species of Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hassalt, 1822 (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Southeastern Yunnan, China

Journal: Pakistan Journal of Zoology

HEC Recognition History
Category From To
X 2023-07-01 2024-09-30
X 2022-07-01 2023-06-30
X 2021-07-01 2022-06-30
Y 2020-07-01 2021-06-30
Y 1900-01-01 2005-06-30

Publisher: Zoological Society Of Pakistan

Country: Pakistan

Year: 2025

Volume: 57

Issue: 2

Language: en

DOI: 10.17582/journal.pjz/20230328130358

Categories
Evolutionary Biology (467) Herpetology (86) Biodiversity (1130) Taxonomy (1377) Zoology (4980)

Abstract

ABSTRACT We describe a new species of Rhacophorus based on morphological and molecular evidence of specimens collected from Malipo Coun­ty, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The new species is morphologically most similar and phylogenetically close­ly related to R. laoshan, but it can be distinguished from the latter by the following morphological characteristics: Relatively greater eye diameter, relatively greater transverse diameter of third-finger disc, tibiotarsal articulation reaching or beyond nostril when hindlimb is adpressed forward, and nuptial pad absent in adult males. In addition, the new species differs from R. laoshan by 3.3 % in 16S rRNA sequences.

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