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Issue: Vol. 5575 No. 3: 24 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.3
Page range: 387-408
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Two new species of fanged frog from Southeastern Borneo, Indonesia (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae)

Graduate Program of Animal Bioscience; Department of Biology; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Bogor Agricultural University; Bogor; West Java 16680; Indonesia; Laboratory of Herpetology; Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense; Research Centre for Biosystematics and Evolution; National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); Gd. Widyasatwaloka; KST Soekarno; Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46; Cibinong; Bogor; West Java 16912; Indonesia
Faculty of Education; Aichi University of Education; Kariya; Aichi 448-8542; Japan
Fukakusa Bo-cho 12–13; Fushimi; Kyoto 612–0871; Japan
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies; Kyoto University; Yoshida-Nihonmatsu-cho; Sakyo-ku; Kyoto 606-8501; Japan.; Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies; Kyoto University; Yoshida-Hon-machi; Sakyo-ku; Kyoto 606-8501; Japan
Laboratory of Herpetology; Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense; Research Centre for Biosystematics and Evolution; National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); Gd. Widyasatwaloka; KST Soekarno; Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46; Cibinong; Bogor; West Java 16912; Indonesia
Department of Biology; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; University of Palangka Raya; Jl. Yos Sudarso; Palangka Raya 74874; Central Kalimantan; Indonesia
Graduate Program of Animal Bioscience; Department of Biology; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Bogor Agricultural University; Bogor; West Java 16680; Indonesia
Laboratory of Herpetology; Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense; Research Centre for Biosystematics and Evolution; National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); Gd. Widyasatwaloka; KST Soekarno; Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46; Cibinong; Bogor; West Java 16912; Indonesia
Amphibia Limnonectes Meratus mountain range morphology partial 16s rRNA gene taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of dicroglossid frog of the Limnonectes kuhlii complex are described from southeastern Borneo, Indonesia. These new species were previously confused with L. kuhlii, whose type locality is Java, but recognized to represent genetically distinct lineages. Here, we describe them based on molecular and morphological characteristics. The two new species, Limnonectes maanyanorum sp. nov. and Limnonectes nusantara sp. nov., can be distinguished from named species of the Limnonectes kuhlii complex from Borneo, Java, Sumatra, and Peninsular Malaysia by significant genetic distances in partial sequences of the 16S rRNA gene and combinations of morphological characters. These descriptions are an initiation step in taxonomic work to encourage studies of the L. kuhlii complex in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

 

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