Boulenophrys acuta

Boulenophrys acuta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Megophryidae
Subfamilia: Megophryinae
Genus: Boulenophrys
Species: Boulenophrys acuta

Name

Boulenophrys acuta (Wang, Li & Jin, 2014)

• Holotype: SYS a002267, adult ♂, collected by Yu-Long Li, Kai Chen and Ying-Yong Wang on 15 August 2013.
• Type locality: “Heishiding Nature Reserve (23°28'27" N, 111°53'53" E; 277.1 m a.s.l.), Fengkai County, Guangdong Province, China”.

Combinations

• Megophrys acuta Wang, Li & Jin in Li et al., 2014: 453 [original combination]
• Xenophrys acuta — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang & Che, 2017: 41 [subsequent combination]
• Megophrys (Panophrys) acuta — Mahony, Foley, Biju & Teeling, 2017: 755 [subsequent combination]
• Panophrys acuta — Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li & Wang, 2021: 12 [subsequent combination]
• Boulenophrys acuta — Dubois, Ohler & Pyron, 2021: 679 (by implication); Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer & Wang, 2021: 403 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Li, Y.-L., Jin, M.-J., Zhao, J., Liu, Z.-Y., Wang, Y.-Y. & Pang, H. 2014. Description of two new species of the genus Megophrys (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Heishiding Nature Reserve, Fengkai, Guangdong, China, based on molecular and morphological data. Zootaxa 3795(4): 449–471. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3795.4.5 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Fengkai Horned Toad