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Issue: Vol. 4085 No. 1: 1 Mar. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.3
Page range: 63–102
Abstract views: 105
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Five new, microendemic Asian Leaf-litter Frogs (Leptolalax) from the southern Annamite mountains, Vietnam

Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 6 College St, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia.
Faculty of Biology - Biotechnology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh city-University of Science, 227 Nguyen Van Cu, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Faculty of Biology - Biotechnology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh city-University of Science, 227 Nguyen Van Cu, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Faculty of Natural Sciences Hong Duc University, No 565 Quang Trung Street- Dong Ve Ward - Thanh Hoa city, Vietnam.
Museu Paraense Emíllio Goeldi, CZO. Avenida Perimetral, 1.901, Terra Firme, CEP 66077-530, Belelém, Pará, Brasil
Faculty of Natural Sciences Hong Duc University, No 565 Quang Trung Street- Dong Ve Ward - Thanh Hoa city, Vietnam.
Faculty of Biology - Biotechnology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh city-University of Science, 227 Nguyen Van Cu, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Vietnam.
AG Zoologischer Garten Köln, Riehler Straße 173, D-50735 Köln, Germany
Amphibia Bioacoustics Leptolalax ardens sp. nov. Leptolalax kalonensis sp. nov. Leptolalax pallidus sp. nov. Leptolalax maculosus sp. nov. and Leptolalax tadungensis sp. nov. microendemism Southeast Asia

Abstract

The Leptolalax applebyi group of Asian leaf-litter frogs currently comprises four species of particularly small-bodied (<40 mm SVL) species distributed in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and northeastern Cambodia. In addition to their small size, the group is characterized by their morphological and genetic similarities, as well as their breeding habitat at headwaters of small mountain streams and seeps. A recent study suggested that at least two-thirds of the diversity of the group remained hidden within morphologically cryptic lineages. We expand upon the molecular, morphometric, and acoustic data and formally delineate and describe five of these lineages as distinct species: Leptolalax ardens sp. nov., Leptolalax kalonensis sp. nov., Leptolalax pallidus sp. nov., Leptolalax maculosus sp. nov., and Leptolalax tadungensis sp. nov. Due to habitat loss, the current ranges of these species are likely to be a fraction of their historical extent and under continued threat from deforestation.

 

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