Leptobrachella botsfordi

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: Leptobrachella botsfordi

Name

Leptobrachella botsfordi (Rowley, Dau & Nguyen, 2013)

• Holotype: VNMN 03682, adult ♂, collected by Jodi J.L. Rowley, Vinh Quang Dau, Sang Van Pham, Tu Van Tran, Su A. Hang, and Di A. Hoang on 10 June 2012.
• Type locality: “under leaf litter, 0.2 m from small trickle of water running through mossy rocks to a 1 m-wide cascading stream in upper montane forests on Mount Fansipan, Hoang Lien National Park, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam (22.3135° N, 103.7652° E, 2,815 m. elevation)”.

Combinations

• Leptolalax botsfordi Rowley, Dau & Nguyen, 2013: 418 [original combination]
• Leptobrachella botsfordi — Chen, Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Lathrop, Wu, Zhou, Yuan, Jin, Chen, Liu, Nguyen, Nguyen, Duong, Eto, Nishikawa, Matsui, Orlov, Stuart, Brown, Rowley, Murphy, Wang & Che, 2018: 162 [subsequent combination, by implication]

References

Primary references

• Rowley, J.J.L., Dau, V.Q. & Nguyen, T.T. 2013. A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the highest mountain in Indochina. Zootaxa 3737(4): 415–428. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.5 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. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2021. IUCN: Leptobrachella botsfordi  (Critically Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T73727195A87994974. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T73727195A87994974.en. Accessed on 04 March 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Botsford’s Litter Toad