Oreolalax
Appearance
Oreolalax | |
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Oreolalax longmenmontis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Megophryidae |
Genus: | Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962 |
Type species | |
Scutiger pingii Liu , 1943
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Species | |
19 species (see text) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Atympanolalax Fei and Ye, 2016 – coined as a subgenus of Oreolalax |
Oreolalax is a genus of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.[1][2] They are mostly endemic to southwestern China, with one species in northern Vietnam (Oreolalax sterlingae),[1][3] and possibly extending into adjacent Laos. There is also a population in Arunachal Pradesh (Northeast India) that has not yet been assigned to a species,[1] although it might rather be a Scutiger.[3]
Species
[edit]The genus contains the following 19 species:[1][2]
- Oreolalax chuanbeiensis Tian, 1983
- Oreolalax granulosus Fei, Ye, and Chen, 1990
- Oreolalax jingdongensis Ma, Yang, and Li, 1983
- Oreolalax liangbeiensis Liu and Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax lichuanensis Hu and Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax longmenmontis Hou, Shi, Hu, Deng, Jiang, Xie, and Wang, 2020
- Oreolalax major (Liu and Hu, 1960)
- Oreolalax multipunctatus Wu, Zhao, Inger, and Shaffer, 1993
- Oreolalax nanjiangensis Fei and Ye, 1999
- Oreolalax omeimontis (Liu and Hu, 1960)
- Oreolalax pingii (Liu, 1943)
- Oreolalax popei (Liu, 1947)
- Oreolalax puxiongensis Liu and Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu and Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax rugosus (Liu, 1943)
- Oreolalax schmidti (Liu, 1947)
- Oreolalax sterlingae Nguyen, Phung, Le, Ziegler, and Böhme, 2013
- Oreolalax weigoldi (Vogt, 1924)
- Oreolalax xiangchengensis Fei and Huang, 1983
Endemic ranges
[edit]Many Oreolalax species are endemic to highly restricted geographical areas in the Eastern Himalayas, especially in Sichuan, China. The ranges often overlap with those of Scutiger species.
- Yunnan, China
- Sichuan, China
- Oreolalax nanjiangensis: Mount Guangwu (光雾山), Nanjiang County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax chuanbeiensis: Pingwu County and Mao County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax liangbeiensis: Puxiong (普雄镇), Yuexi County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax longmenmontis: Pengzhou, Sichuan
- Oreolalax puxiongensis: Puxiong (普雄镇), Yuexi County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax pingii: Zhaojue County and Yuexi County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax multipunctatus: Emeishan and Hongya counties, Sichuan
- Oreolalax omeimontis: Emeishan and Hongya counties, Sichuan
- Oreolalax major: central Sichuan
- Oreolalax schmidti: central Sichuan
- Oreolalax weigoldi: Washan, Sichuan
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Frost, Darrel R. (2020). "Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Megophryidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ a b Hou, Yinmeng; Shi, Shengchao; Hu, Daming; Deng, Yue; Jiang, Jianping; Xie, Feng & Wang, Bin (2020). "A new species of the toothed toad Oreolalax (Anura, Megophryidae) from Sichuan Province, China". ZooKeys (929): 93–115. doi:10.3897/zookeys.929.49748. PMC 7192958. PMID 32377150.