Oreolalax

Oreolalax longmenmontis

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: Oreolalax
Species (20): O. chuanbeiensis – O. granulosus – O. jingdongensis – O. liangbeiensis – O. lichuanensis – O. longmenmontis – O. major – O. multipunctatus – O. nanjiangensis – O. omeimontis – O. pingii – O. popei – O. puxiongensis – O. rhodostigmatus – O. rugosus – O. schmidti – O. sterlingae – O. weigoldi – O. xiangchengensis – O. yanyuanensis

Name

Oreolalax Myers & Leviton, 1962: 289

• Type species: Scutiger pingii Liu, 1943, by original designation.

Synonymy

• Scutiger (Oreolalax) — Dubois, 1979: 631 [reduce to subgenus of Scutiger]
• Atympanolalax Fei & Ye, 2016: 489 [as a subgenus of Oreolalax]
  • Type species: Scutiger rugosa Liu, 1943, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Myers, G.S. & Leviton, A.E. 1962. Generic classification of the high-altitude pelobatid toads of Asia (Scutiger, Aelurophryne, and Oreolalax). Copeia 1962: 287–291.

Additional references

• Nguyen, T.Q., Phung, T.M., Le, M.D., Ziegler, T. & Böhme, W. 2013. First record of the genus Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from Vietnam with descirption of a new species. Copeia 2013(2): 213–222. DOI: 10.1643/CH-12-021 Reference page. 
• Rowley, J.J.L., Tapley, B., Chung, N.T. & Altig, R. 2017. Tadpole of the Critically Endangered Sterling’s Toothed Toad (Oreolalax sterlingae). Zootaxa 4272(4): 579–582. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.4.6 Reference page. 
• Hou, Y-M., Zheng, P-Y., Yu, H-Q., Wang, B., Chen, X-H. & Xie, F. 2024. A new toad of Oreolalax Myers & Leviton, 1962 (Anura, Megophryidae) from Sichuan Province, southwest China. ZooKeys 1212: 109–127. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1212.122222 Reference page. 
• Hou, Y.-M., Shi, S.-C., Hu, D., Deng, Y., Jiang, J.-P., Xie, F. & Wang, B. 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 Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Oreolalax Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (28 March 2021). Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001

Vernacular names

English: Lazy Toads; Toothed Toads

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