First Description of the Tadpole ofTheloderma gordoni(Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam

Larval description of Theloderma albopunctatum (Liu & Hu, 1962) (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Northern Vietnam, with comparison between the North-Vietnamese and North-eastern Thai clades

“…The nine freshly preserved tadpoles were measured with a digital calliper (Type: INOX Hardened 150 mm) under a binocular (Type: Zeiss Stemi 508) to the nearest of 0.1 mm. The following 20 metrics were taken according to prior studies describing tadpoles (Poyarkov et al 2015;Kropachev et al 2018;Klein et al 2020): MBH, maximum body height; BL, body length; MBW, maximum body width; ED, eye diameter; IND, internarial distance (between centres of the nares); IOD, interorbital distance (between pupils of the eyes); UF, maximum upper fin height; LF, maximum lower fin height; MTH, maximum tail height; END, naro-pupilar distance; ODW, oral disc width; RND, rostro-narial distance (tip of snout to centre of nares); RSD, rostro-spiracle distance (tip of snout to spiracle); TAL, tail length; TL, total length; TMH, tail musculature height at base; TMW, tail musculature width at base; BWE, body width at eye level; BWN, body width at nostril level; RED, rostro-eye distance (tip of snout to centre of eye).…”