Megophrys parallela

Taxonavigation edit

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

Megophrys parallela Inger & Iskandar, 2005: 134

Holotype: MZB unnumbered (field number D33), adult ♂, collected by Djong Hon-Tjong & David Gusman between 2-9 September 2001.
Type locality: “Batang Sarasah, Lubuk Selasih, near Solok, West Sumatra (0°59′S/100°38′E, 1289 m ASL”, Indonesia.

Megophrys parallela Inger & Iskandar, 2005: 134 [original combination]
Xenophrys parallelus — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean & Ohler, 2006: 17 [subsequent combination, incorrect gender agreement]
Xenophrys parallela — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang & Che, 2017: 41 [subsequent combination]
Megophrys (Megophrys) parallela — Mahony, Foley, Biju & Teeling, 2017: 754 [subsequent combination]

Inger, R.F. & Iskandar, D.T. 2005. A collection of amphibians from West Sumatra, with description of a new species of Megophrys (Amphibia: Anura). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53(1): 133–142. PDF Reference page.
Delorme, M., Dubois, A., Grosjean, S. & Ohler, A. 2006. Une nouvelle ergotaxinomie des Megophryidae (Amphibia, Anura). Alytes 24(1-4): 6–21. Reference page.
Chen, J.-M., Zhou, W.-W., Poyarkov, Jr., N.A., Stuart, B.L., Brown, R.M., Lathrop, A., Wang, Y.-Y., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jiang, K., Hou, M., Chen, H.-M., Suwannapoom, C., Nguyen, S.N., Duong, T.V., Papenfuss, T.J., Murphy, R.W., Zhang, Y.-P. & Che, J. 2017. A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 28–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.004 Reference page.
Mahony, S., Foley, N.M., Biju, S.D. & Teeling, E.C. 2017. Evolutionary history of the Asian Horned Frogs (Megophryinae): integrative approaches to timetree dating in the absence of a fossil record. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(3): 744–771. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw267 Reference page.

Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Megophrys parallela . Accessed on 24 July 2021.
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2018. IUCN: Megophrys parallela (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T61842A97462605. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T61842A97462605.en

English: Sumatra Horned Toad