A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the sacred groves of Mawphlang, Meghalaya, north-eastern India

Abstract

A new species of megophryid frog of the genus Leptolalax is described from the sacred groves of Mawphlang, East Khasi Hills, north-eastern India. L. khasiorum new species, is compared with congeners from India and other parts of south-east Asia. The new species is diagnosable in showing the following combination of characters: SVL 24.5–27.3 (mean 25.63 ± 0.61 SE) mm in a sample of four adult males; 31.2–33.4 (mean 32.50 ± 0.67 SE) mm in a sample of three females; dorsum with fine scattered tubercles; eyelids with tubercles; tympanum and supratympanic fold distinct; macroglands, including preaxillary, pectorals and ventrolateral glands present; Finger I > II; toe tips not dilated, bearing dermal fringes; dorsum with dark blotches; flanks with large dark blotches; dark tympanic mask present; venter lacking dark blotches; labial bars present and limbs with dark cross-bars.

A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guizhou Province, China

“…Diagnosis. The specimens were assigned to the genus Leptobrachella on the basis of the following characters: (1) small body size; (2) having an elevated inner metacarpal tubercle; (3) having macro-glands on body (including supra-axillary, femoral and ventrolateral glands); (4) lacking vomerine teeth; (5) having small tubercles on eyelids; (6) anterior tip of snout with whitish vertical bar (Dubois 1983;Matsui 1997Lathrop et al 1998;Delorme et al 2006;Das et al 2010). Leptobrachella suiyangensis sp.…”

A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from northern Vietnam

“…Mass was recorded in life (to the nearest 0.1 g), using Pesola scales. We obtained comparative morphological data from museum specimens of Leptolalax and photographs of these specimens in life (Appendix) and from the literature: L. aereus (Rowley et al 2010c), L. alpinis (Fei et al 1991(Fei et al , 2009(Fei et al , 2010, L. arayai (Matsui 1997), L. bourreti (Dubois 1983), L. croceus (Rowley et al 2010a), L. dringi (Dubois 1986;Inger & Stuebing 2005), L. fuliginosus (Matsui 2006), L. gracilis (Günther 1872;Malkmus et al 2002;Inger & Stuebing 2005), L. hamidi (Matsui 1997), L. heteropus (Boulenger 1900), L. kecil (Matsui et al 2009), L. khasiorum (Das et al 2010), L. kajangensis (Grismer et al 2004), L. lateralis (Anderson 1871;Humtsoe et al 2008), L. liui (Fei et al 1991(Fei et al , 2009(Fei et al , 2010, L. maurus (Inger et al 1997), L. melanoleucus (Matsui 2006), L. melicus (Rowley et al 2010b), L. nahangensis (Lathrop et al 1998), L. oshanensis (Liu 1950;Fei et al 2009Fei et al , 2010, L. pelodytoides (Boulenger 1893(Boulenger , 1908, L. pictus (Malkmus 1992;Malkmus et al 2002), L. pluvialis (Ohler et al 2000), L. solus (Matsui 2006), L. sungi (Lathrop et al 1998), L. tamdil (Sengupta et al 2010), L. tuberosus…”

<p><strong>A new species of <em>Leptolalax</em> (Anura: Megophryidae) from Vietnam and Cambodia</strong></p>

“…Geographic coordinates were obtained using a Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx GPS receiver and recorded in datum WGS 84. We obtained comparative morphological data from museum specimens of Leptolalax and photographs of these specimens in life (Appendix I) and from the literature: L. aereus (Rowley et al 2010a), L. alpinis (Fei et al 1991(Fei et al , 2009(Fei et al , 2010, L. applebyi (Rowley & Cao 2009), L. arayai (Matsui 1997), L. bidoupensis (Rowley et al 2011), L. botsfordi (Rowley et al 2013), L. bourreti (Dubois 1983;Ohler et al 2011), L. croceus (Rowley et al 2010b), L. dringi (Dubois 1987;Inger et al 1995), L. eos (Ohler et al 2011), L. firthi (Rowley et al 2012), L. fuliginosus (Matsui 2006), L. fritinniens (Dehling & Matsui 2013), L. gracilis (Günther 1872;Inger & Stuebing 2005;Dehling 2012a), L. hamidi (Matsui 1997), L. heteropus (Boulenger 1900), L. kecil (Matsui et al 2009), L. khasiorum (Das et al 2010), L. kajangensis (Grismer et al 2004), L. lateralis (Anderson 1871;Humtsoe et al 2008), L. laui (Sung et. al.…”