A New Species of Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hassalt, 1822 (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Southeastern Yunnan, China
A New Species of Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hassalt, 1822 (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Southeastern Yunnan, China
Shuo Liu1, Mian Hou2, Dingqi Rao3* and Song Li1,4*
ABSTRACT
We describe a new species of Rhacophorus based on morphological and molecular evidence of specimens collected from Malipo County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The new species is morphologically most similar and phylogenetically closely related to R. laoshan, but it can be distinguished from the latter by the following morphological characteristics: Relatively greater eye diameter, relatively greater transverse diameter of third-finger disc, tibiotarsal articulation reaching or beyond nostril when hindlimb is adpressed forward, and nuptial pad absent in adult males. In addition, the new species differs from R. laoshan by 3.3 % in 16S rRNA sequences.
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