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Issue: Vol. 5566 No. 2: 8 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5566.2.6
Page range: 347-369
Abstract views: 211
PDF downloaded: 14

A new species of Microhyla (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae), with an extended description of Microhyla nanapollexa from Vietnam

CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization and Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province; Chengdu Institute of Biology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chengdu 610041; China.; Institute of Genome Research; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road; Hanoi; Vietnam.; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049; China.
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road; Hanoi 10072; Vietnam.; Graduate University of Science and Technology; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road; Cau Giay; Hanoi 10072; Vietnam.
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road; Hanoi 10072; Vietnam.; Graduate University of Science and Technology; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road; Cau Giay; Hanoi 10072; Vietnam.
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road; Hanoi 10072; Vietnam.
AG Zoologischer Garten Köln; Riehler Strasse 173; D-50735 Cologne; Germany.; Institute of Zoology; University of Cologne; Zülpicher Strasse 47b; D-50674 Cologne; Germany.
Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Universitetskaya nab. 1; St. Petersburg; 199034; Russia.
CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization and Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province; Chengdu Institute of Biology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chengdu 610041; China.; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049; China.
Faculty of Natural Sciences; Phu Yen University; Tuy Hoa; Phu Yen; Vietnam
Amphibia Microhyla roedderi sp. nov. Deo Ca Mountain khanh hoa Phu yen morphology molecular phylogeny taxonomy

Abstract

Based on morphological and molecular evidences, we describe a new species of Microhyla (Nanohyla) from Deo Ca Mountain in Vietnam. The new species differs from congeners by high genetic divergences in 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA sequences (9.31–11.28 %), surpassing known genetic distances between other recognized species of the subgenus Nanohyla. The new species revealed to be sister to M. nanapollexa from Kon Tum Province, Vietnam. Based on new findings of the latter species, including the first known males, we provide an extended diagnosis of M. nanapollexa including the first record from Kon Tum Province, Vietnam.

 

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