Publications by authors named "Chang-Ting Lan"

Two new species of the genus from southwestern Guizhou Province, China, are described. These are Wu, Luo, Xiao & Zhou, and Lan, Liu, Zhou & Zhou, from Maoying Town, Ziyun County, Guizhou Province, China. Wu, Luo, Xiao & Zhou, is distinguished from other hypogean species of the genus by having a combination of the following characteristics: body naked, scaleless, pigmented markings on surface of body, except ventral; eyes reduced, diameter 2.

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In this work, we describe a new species of the genus Oreonectes, Oreonectes yuedongensis sp. nov., collected from the Lianhua Mountains in eastern Guangdong, China.

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Asian warty treefrogs, genus , are morphologically variable arboreal frogs endemic to Southeast Asia and Southern China. However, integrated systematic studies are lacking, and knowledge of the genus in terms of diversity, origin, and historical diversification remains limited. To address these knowledge gaps, we used three mitochondrial and five nuclear gene fragments to reconstruct the phylogeny, estimate divergence times, and examine the biogeography of the genus.

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Recently described cave species of the genus have been discovered in southwestern China, suggesting that the diversity of the genus is severely underestimated and that there may be many undescribed species. In this work, four new species of the genus are described from southwestern Guizhou Province, China, namely Luo, Mao, Zhao, Xiao & Zhou, and Mao, Zhao, Yu, Xiao & Zhou, from Rongdu Town, Ceheng County, Guizhou, Yu, Luo, Lan, Xiao & Zhou, from Hongguo Town, Panzhou City, Guizhou, and Song, Luo, Lan, Zhao, Xiao & Zhou, from Xinglong Town, Anlong County, Guizhou. These four new species can be distinguished from all recognized congeners by a combination of morphological characteristics and significant genetic divergences.

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This work describes a new species, , collected from a cave at Xinglong Town, Anlong County, Guzihou, China. Phylogenetic trees reconstructed based on two mitochondrial and three nuclear genes show that the new species represents an independent evolutionary lineage with large genetic differences, 7.1%-12.

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In this work, a new species of the genus is described, named Yu, Luo, Lan, Xiao & Zhou, , collected from the Damingshan Mountains of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Phylogenetic trees constructed based on the mitochondrial Cyt showed that the new species represents an independent evolutionary lineage, with uncorrected genetic distances (-distance) from congeners ranging from 6.1% to 8.

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