Leptobrachella

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: Leptobrachiinae
Genus: Leptobrachella
Species (107): L. aerea – L. alpina – L. applebyi – L. arayai – L. ardens – L. aspera – L. aurantirosea – L. baluensis – L. bashaensis – L. bidoupensis – L. bijie – L. bondangensis – L. botsfordi – L. bourreti – L. brevicrus – L. chishuiensis – L. crocea – L. damingshanensis – L. dayaoshanensis – L. dong – L. dorsospina – L. dringi – L. dushanensis – L. eos – L. feii – L. firthi – L. flaviglandulosa – L. fritinniens – L. fuliginosa – L. fusca – L. gracilis – L. graminicola – L. guinanensis – L. hamidi – L. heteropus – L. huynhi – L. isos – L. itiokai – L. jinshaensis – L. jinyunensis – L. juliandringi – L. kajangensis – L. kalonensis – L. kecil – L. khasiorum – L. korifi – L. lateralis – L. laui – L. liui – L. macrops – L. maculosa – L. mangshanensis – L. maoershanensis – L. marmorata – L. maura – L. melanoleuca – L. melica – L. minima – L. mjobergi – L. murphyi – L. nahangensis – L. namdongensis – L. natunae – L. neangi – L. niveimontis – L. nokrekensis – L. nyx – L. oshanensis – L. pallida – L. palmata – L. parva – L. pelodytoides – L. petrops – L. phiadenensis – L. phiaoacensis – L. picta – L. pingbianensis – L. platycephala – L. pluvialis – L. puhoatensis – L. purpuraventra – L. purpurus – L. pyrrhops – L. rowleyae – L. sabahmontana – L. serasanae – L. shangsiensis – L. shimentaina – L. shiwandashanensis – L. sinorensis – L. sola – L. suiyangensis – L. sungi – L. tadungensis – L. tamdil – L. tengchongensis – L. tuberosa – L. ventripunctata – L. verrucosa – L. wuhuangmontis – L. wulingensis – L. wumingensis – L. yeae – L. yingjiangensis – L. yunkaiensis – L. yunyangensis – L. zhangyapingi

Name

Leptobrachella Smith, 1925: 27

Type species: Leptobrachella mjobergi Smith, 1925, by monotypy.

Synonyms

Nesobia Van Kampen, 1923: 6 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Nesobia Ancey, 1887]
- Type species: Leptobrachium natunae Günther, 1895, by monotypy.

Leptolalax Dubois, 1980: 476 [as a subgenus of Leptobrachium; elevate to genus by Dubois (1983: 147); synonymised by Chen et al. (2018: 162)]
- Type species: Leptobrachium gracile Günther, 1872, by original designation.

Lalax Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean & Ohler, 2006: 14 [as a subgenus of Leptolalax; nomen praeoccupatum pro †Lalax Hamilton, 1990]
- Type species: Leptobrachium bourreti Dubois, 1983, by original designation.

Lalos Dubois, Grosjean, Ohler, Adler & Zhao, 2010: 66 [nomen substitutum pro Lalax Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean & Ohler, 2006]
- Type species: Leptobrachium bourreti Dubois, 1983, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Smith, M.A. 1925. Contributions to the herpetology of Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 3: 15–34.
van Kampen, P.N. 1923. The Amphibia of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. E.J. Brill Ltd: Leiden. 304 pp. BHL Reference page.
Dubois, A. 1980. Notes sur la systematique et la repartition des amphibiens anoures de Chine et des regions avoisinantes IV. Classification generique et subgenerique des Pelobatidae Megophryinae. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 49: 469–482.
Dubois, A. 1983. Note préliminaire sur le genre Leptolalax Dubois, 1980 (Amphibiens, Anoures), avec diagnose d'une espèce nouvelle du Vietnam. Alytes 2: 147–153.
Delorme, M., Dubois, A., Grosjean, S. & Ohler, A. 2006. Une nouvelle ergotaxinomie des Megophryidae (Amphibia, Anura). Alytes 24(1-4): 6–21. Reference page.
Dubois, A., Grosjean, S., Ohler, A., Adler, K. & Zhao, E.-M. 2010. The nomenclatural status of some generic nomina of Megophryidae (Amphibia: Anura). Zootaxa 2493(1): 66–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2493.1.6 Reference page.
Chen, J., Poyarkov Jr., N.A., Suwannapoom, C., Lathrop, A., Wu, Y.-H., Zhou, W.-W., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jin, J.-Q., Chen, H.-M., Liu, H.-Q., Nguyen, T.Q., Nguyen, S.N., Duong, T.V., Eto, K., Nishikawa, K., Matsui, M., Orlov, N.L., Stuart, B.L., Brown, R.M., Rowley, J.J.L., Murphy, R.W., Wang, Y.-Y. & Che, J. 2018. Large-scale phylogenetic analyses provide insights into unrecognized diversity and historical biogeography of Asian leaf-litter frogs, genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124: 162–171. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.020 Reference page.

Additional references

Duong, T.V., Do, D.T., Ngo, C.D., Nguyen, T.Q. & Poyarkov, Jr., N.A. 2018. A new species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from southern Vietnam. Zoological Research 39(3): 181–196. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.009 Reference page.
Eto, K., Matsui, M., Hamidy, A., Munir, M. & Iskandar, D. 2018. Two New Species of the Genus Leptobrachella (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Kalimantan, Indonesia. Current Herpetology 37(2): 95–105. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.37.95 Reference page.
Hou, Y-M., Zhang, M-F., Hu, F., Li, S-Y., Shi, S-C., Chen, J., Mo, X-Y. & Wang, B. 2018. A new species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura, Megophryidae) from Hunan, China. Zootaxa 4444(3): 247–266. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.2 Reference page.
Nguyen, L.T., Poyarkov, N.A. Jr., Le, D.T., Vo, B.D., Phan, H.T., Duong, T.V., Murphy, R.W. & Nguyen, S.N. 2018. A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from Son Tra Peninsula, central Vietnam. Zootaxa 4388(1): 1–21. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.1.1 Reference page.
Yang, J.-H., Zeng, Z.-C. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2018. Description of two new sympatric species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from western Yunnan of China. PeerJ 6: e4586. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4586 Reference page.
Wang, J., Yang, J-H., Li, Y., Lyu, Z-T., Zeng, Z-C., Liu, Z-Y., Ye, Y-H. & Wang, Y-Y. 2018. Morphology and molecular genetics reveal two new Leptobrachella species in southern China (Anura, Megophryidae). ZooKeys 776: 105–137. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.776.22925 Reference page.
Chen, W-C., Liao, X-W., Zhou, S-C. & Mo, Y-M. 2019. A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) from southern Guangxi, China. Zootaxa 4563(1): 67–82. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4563.1.3 Reference page.
Hoang, V.C., Nguyen, T.T., Luu, Q.V., Nguyen, Q.T. & Jiang, J.-P. 2019. A new species of Leptobrachella Smith 1925 (Anura: Megophryidae) from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67: 536–556. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0042 Reference page.
Wang, J., Li, Y-L., Li, Y., Chen, H-H., Zeng, Y-J., Shen, J-M. & Wang, Y-Y. 2019. Morphology, molecular genetics, and acoustics reveal two new species of the genus Leptobrachella from northwestern Guizhou Province, China (Anura, Megophryidae). Zookeys 848: 119–154. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.848.29181 Reference page.
Chen, J.-M., Xu, K., Poyarkov, Jr., N.A., Wang, K., Yuan, Z.-H., Hou, M., Suwannapoom, C., Wang, J. & Che, J. 2020. How little is known about “the little brown frogs”: description of three new species of the genus Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Zoological Research 41(3): 292–313. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.036 Reference page.
Li, S-Z., Liu, J., Wei, G. & Wang, B. 2020. A new species of the Asian leaf litter toad genus Leptobrachella (Amphibia, Anura, Megophryidae) from southwest China. ZooKeys 943: 91–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.943.51572 Reference page.
Luo, T., Xiao, N., Gao, K. & Zhou, J. 2020. A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guizhou Province, China. ZooKeys 923: 115–140. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.923.47172 Reference page.
Lyu, J-C., Dai, L-L., Wei, P-F., He, Y-H., Yuan, Z-Y., Shi, W-L., Zhou, S-L., Ran, S-Y., Kuang, Z-F., Guo, X., Wei, G. & Yuan, G. 2020. A new species of the genus Leptobrachella Smith, 1925 (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guizhou, China. ZooKeys 1008: 139–157. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1008.56412 Reference page.
Qian, T.-Y., Xia, X., Cao, Y., Xiao, N.-W. & Yang, D.-D. 2020. A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) Smith, 1925 from Wuling Mountains in Hunan Province, China. Zootaxa 4816(4): 491–526. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.4 Reference page.
Stuart, B.L. & Rowley, J.J.L. 2020. A new Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia. Zootaxa 4834(4): 556–572. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4834.4.4 Reference page.
Wang, J., Lyu, Z-T., Qi, S., Zeng, Z-C., Zhang, W-X., Lu, L-S. & Wang, Y-Y. 2020. Two new Leptobrachella species (Anura, Megophryidae) from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwestern China. ZooKeys 995: 97–125. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.995.55939 Reference page.
Chen, J.-M., Suwannapoom, C., Wu, Y.-H., Poyarkov, Jr., N.A., Xu, K., Pawangkhanant, P. & Che, J. 2021. Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) from the mountains of northern Thailand. Zootaxa 5052(2): 191–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.2 Reference page.
Chen, W.-C., Peng, W.-X., Pan, W.-H., Liao, N.-Y., Liu, Y.-J. & Huang, Y. 2021. A new species of Leptobrachella Smith 1925 (Anura: Megophryidae) from southern Guangxi, China. Zootaxa 5020(3): 581–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.8 Reference page.
Chen, W.-C., Yu, G.-D., Cheng, Z.-Y., Meng, T., Wei, H., Zhou, G.-Y. & Lu, Y.-W. 2021. A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) from central Guangxi, China. Zoological Research 42(6): 783–788. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2021.179 Reference page.
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Nguyen, L.T., Tapley, B., Nguyen, C.T., Luong, H.V. & Rowley, J.J.L. 2021. A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae) from Mount Pu Ta Leng, northwest Vietnam. Zootaxa 3(5016): 301–332. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3.5016.1 Reference page.
Shi, S.-C., Hou, Y.-M., Song, Z.-B., Jiang, J.-P. & Wang, B. 2021. A new Leaf Litter Toad of Leptobrachella Smith, 1925 (Anura, Megophryidae) from Sichuan Province, China with supplementary description of L. oshanensis. Asian Herpetological Research 12(2): 143–166. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.200118 Reference page.
Lin, S.-S., Li, Y-H., Lu, Y.-H., Su, H-L., Wu, S.-B., Zhang, Q.-Q., Mo, M.-J., Xiao, S.-J., Pan, Z., Pan, H.-J., Zeng, Z-C. & Wang, J. 2022. A new species of the genus Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae) from northwestern Guangdong Province, China. Herpetozoa 35: 165–178. DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.35.e89981 Reference page.
Luo, T., Wang, W.-F., Peng, D., Lei, B., Deng, H.-Q., Ji, S.-N., Huang, H.-Q. & Zhou, J. 2022. A new species of the Asian Leaf Litter Toad genus Leptobrachella (Amphibia, Anura, Megophryidae) from Chongqing City, Southwest China. Asian Herpetological Research 13(2): 75–95. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.210052 Reference page.
Wang, J., Qi, S., Dai, K.-Y., Lyu, Z.-T., Zeng, Z.-C., Chen, H.-H., Li, Y.-Q., Zhao, Y.-Y., Wang, Y.-Z. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2022. A new Leptobrachella species (Anura, Megophryidae) from South China, with comments on the taxonomic status of L. chishuiensis and L. purpurus. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98: 165–180. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.73162 Reference page.
Matsui, M., Panha, S. & Eto, K. 2023. Two new species of Leptobrachella from northern Thailand (Amphibia, Anura, Megophryidae). Current Herpetology 42(1): 83–97. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.42.83 Reference page.
Chen, W-C., Peng, W-X., Li, P. & Yu, G-D. 2023. A new species of the genus Leptobrachella Smith 1925 (Amphibia, Anura, Megophryidae) from Guangxi, China. Zookeys 1178: 1–16. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1178.106038 Reference page.
Liu, J., Shi, S-C., Li, S., Zhang, M-F., Xiang, S-J., Wei, G. & Wang, B. 2023. A new Asian leaf litter toad of the genus Leptobrachella (Amphibia, Anura, Megophryidae) from central south China. Zookeys 1149: 103–134. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1149.85895 Reference page.
Chen, W-C., Li, P., Peng, W-X., Liu, Y-J. & Huang, Y. 2024. The fourth species of Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae) found at Shiwandashan National Nature Reserve, Guangxi, China. ZooKeys 1192: 257–279. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1192.98352 Reference page.
Yu, G-D., Qin, K., Meng, T., Li, P., Peng, W-X. & Chen, W-C. 2024. A new species of the genus Leptobrachella (Amphibia, Anura, Megophryidae) from Dayaoshan National Nature Reserve, Guangxi, China. ZooKeys 1219: 105–122. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.121027 Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Asian Leaf Litter Toads