A new species of the genus Rana from Henan, central China (Anura, Ranidae)

Authors: Zhao, Haipeng Country: People's Republic of China DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.694.12513 Published: Jan. 1, 2017 Source: ZooKeys OpenAlex: View in OpenAlex

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Brown frog · Topics: Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

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A new species of brown frog Rana luanchuanensis Zhao & Yuan, sp. n. is described from Luanchuan County, western Henan, central China. The mitochondrial genealogy suggests that the new species is the sister taxon to the clade including R. amurensis and R. coreana, and is separated by uncorrected pairwise distances more than 12.5%. Morphologically, this new species differs from its congeners by a suite of characters. Analyses of partial sequences of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) resolve the new species as a single matriline.

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