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Issue: Vol. 3388 No. 1: 13 Jul. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-07-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3388.1.3
Page range: 29–40
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the genus Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) from southeastern Tibet, China

State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, Yunnan Province, China
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, Yunnan Province, China
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, Yunnan Province, China
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, Yunnan Province, China
Institute of herpetology, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning Province, China
Institute of herpetology, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning Province, China Academy of Continuing Education, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, Sichuan Province, China
Forestry Bureau of Linzhi Prefecture in Tibet, Bayi 860000, Tibet, China
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, Yunnan Province, China
Amphibia Scutiger wuguanfui sp. nov. Anura Megophryidae Tibet

Abstract

A new species of Scutiger Theobald, 1868 is described from Medog, southeastern Tibet, China. Scutiger wuguanfui sp.nov. is distinguished from congeners in the following combination of characters: (1) large adult size, female is much largerthan male; (2) maxillary teeth absent; (3) male with a pair of pectoral glands and a pair of axillary glands, axillary glandssimilar to pectoral glands, all of them covered by black spines in breeding season; (4) in breeding male, nuptial spines ondorsal surface of firs and second fingers, and inner side of third finger; (5) male with an internal single subgular vocal sac,a pair of slit-like openings of vocal sac near corners of the mouth. This new species is currently known only from the type locality.

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