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Issue: Vol. 1258 No. 1: 14 Jul. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1258.1.2
Page range: 17–31
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Rhacophorus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Guangxi Province, China

Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China 650223
Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, California 94103 H. T. Harvey & Associates, 3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite 215, San Jose, California 95118
Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong, China
Amphibia new species Rhacophorus minimus Rhacophorus Polypedates Guangxi China

Abstract

A new species of Rhacophorus is described from Guangxi Province, China.  The new species, Rhacophorus minimus, is the smallest of the known green species of Rhacophorus, with a SVL averaging only 28.1 mm for males and 37.0 mm for females.  Other characters that separate it from other green Rhacophorus species include a smooth bright green dorsum, lacking tubercles and pattern; a white stripe from tip of snout along the upper lip and shoulder to insertion of hind limbs; reduced webbing, less than a third of the length of outer fingers; and disc of the 3rd finger smaller than the diameter of the tympanum.

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