Contrasting nidification behaviors facilitate diversification and colonization of the Music frogs under a changing paleoclimate.

In order to cope with the complexity and variability of the terrestrial environment, amphibians have developed a wide range of reproductive and parental behaviors. Nest building occurs in some anuran species as parental care. Species of the Music frog genus Nidirana are known for their unique courtship behavior and mud nesting in several congeners.

Integrative taxonomy revealing a troglobitic new genus of Diplommatinidae from Jiangxi, China (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea).

A new subterranean diplommatinid snail is described and illustrated from Jiangxi, China. The species is diagnosed by its cylindrical-fusiform shell and absence of internal columellar lamellae and parietal folds. The morphological and molecular phylogenetic characterization of the new species supports the erection of a new genus, Sohtsuia Z.

Generic classification of Asian horned toads (Anura: Megophryidae: Megophryinae) and monograph of Chinese species.

The subfamily Megophryinae, as a representative batrachian group of the Oriental Realm and one of the most diverse groups of amphibians, has attracted considerable attention due to continued conjecture regarding its generic classification and failure to reach a satisfactory consensus. China boasts the richest diversity of Asian horned toads, containing some two thirds of the total species cataloged. However, most species have a complicated taxonomic history, resulting in multiple misidentifications.

Three new species of the genus Boulenophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from southern China.

The diversity of Asian horned toads is considered highly underestimated and to contain a large number of undescribed cryptic species. In this work, we describe three new species of Boulenophrys from south China, namely, Boulenophrys yaoshanensis sp. nov.

A new species of Torrent frog (Anura, Ranidae, Amolops) from the Coastal Hills of Southeastern China.

The Amolops populations in the coastal hills in eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian, China, were controversially recorded as A. hongkongensis or A. daiyunensis before.

A new species of Music frog (Anura, Ranidae, ) from Mt Daming, Guangxi, China.

, a new music frog species, is proposed, based on a series of specimens collected from Mt Daming, Guangxi, southern China. The new species is close to , , , and from southwestern and south-central China and northern Indochina, while the relationships among these species remain unresolved. sp.

Taxonomic revision of (Pope, 1929) (Amphibia: Anura) and description of a new species from southwestern China, with discussion on group and assignment of species groups of the genus .

is a species complex and reported widely from eastern, southern, and southwestern China. Based on molecular data of 19 populations of from China, including the population from Mt. Wuyi (type locality), we recognize and provide an expanded description based on the topotypic specimens.

Review of the emGekko/em (emJaponigekko/em) emsubpalmatus/em complex (Squamata, Sauria, Gekkonidae), with description of a new species from China.

The gecko species Gekko (Japonigekko) subpalmatus was previously recorded with a relatively wide distribution from eastern, southern, and southeastern China. However, the populations in southern China are currently recognized as another valid species G. (J.

Four new species of Panophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from eastern China, with discussion on the recognition of Panophrys as a distinct genus.

The diversity of Panophrys horned toads is considered highly underestimated with a large number of undescribed cryptic species. In this work, we describe four Panophrys species from eastern China which were proposed as cryptic species by molecular data in previous study, additionally provide new information on the biogeography of these four species. Panophrys daiyunensis sp.

Two new species (Anura, Megophryidae) from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwestern China.

Two new toad species of the genus are described from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of China, based on the combination of molecular and morphological data. The description of Wang, Lyu, Qi & Wang, from Huanglianshan Nature Reserve represents the thirteenth species known from Yunnan Province, and the description of Wang, Lyu, Qi & Wang, from Yushe Forest Park represents the sixth species known from Guizhou Province. These new discoveries further emphasize the extremely high diversity of the toads in these regions.

The Stoor Hobbit of Guangdong: sp. nov., a cave-dwelling Leopard Gecko (Squamata, Eublepharidae) from South China.

A new species of the genus is described based on three specimens collected from a limestone cave in Huaiji County, Guangdong Province, China. Based on molecular phylogenetic analyses, the new species is nested within the species group. However, morphological analyses cannot ascribe it to any known species of that group.

A definition of the group (Squamata, Eublepharidae) with the description of a new species.

A definition of the group is presented in this study, on the basis of morphological and phylogenetic analyses based on a series of additional specimens. Moreover, a new species of this group, , is proposed for northern Guangdong Province, China. The new species can be distinguished from the other two congeners of this group by the following unique characters: one or two internasals; enlarged supraorbital tubercles absent; paravertebral tubercles between limb insertions 27-29; dorsal tubercle rows at midbody 21-24; ten precloacal pores in males and absent in females; body bands with black spots; iris orange-red.

A new species of Nidirana from the N. pleuraden group (Anura, Ranidae) from western Yunnan, China.

The Music Frog genus Nidirana was recently resurrected as a distinct genus and contains 14 species distributed in subtropical eastern and southeastern Asia. The species diversity of Nidirana is dramatically underestimated, and half of its species was described in the last five years. In this study, Nidirana occidentalis sp.

A new species of the genus (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Guangxi, China.

A new species of colubrid snake, , is described based on two adult male specimens collected from Huaping Nature Reserve, Guangxi, southern China. In a phylogenetic analyses, the new species is shown to be a sister taxon to the clade composed of and with low statistical support, and can be distinguished from all known congeners by the significant genetic divergence in the mitochondrial cytochrome gene fragment (-distance ≥ 7.9%), and morphologically by the following combination of characters: (1) dorsal scales in 17-17-15 rows, smooth throughout; (2) supralabials eight, third to fifth in contact with eye, infralabials nine; (3) ventral scales 199-200 (plus two preventral scales), subcaudals 78; (4) loreal single, elongated, in contact with eye or not, not in contact with internasals; (5) a single preocular not in contact with frontal, supraocular in contact with prefrontal, two postoculars; (6) maxillary teeth 10 (4+2+2+2); (7) two anterior temporals, three posterior temporals; (8) precloacal plate entire; (9) ground color from head to tail brownish black, with 31-35 dusty rose bands on body trunk, 13-16 on tail; (10) bands in 1-2 vertebral scales broad in minimum width; (11) bands separate ground color into brownish black ellipse patches arranged in a row along the top of body and tail; (12) elliptical patches in 3-6 scales of the vertebral row in maximum width; (13) ventral surface of body with wide brownish black strip, margined with a pair of continuous narrow greyish white ventrolateral lines.

A new species of the group (Anura, Ranidae, ) from China, with a taxonomic proposal for the group.

, a new species from Hunan and Jiangxi, southeastern China, is described. The new species is assigned to the group. The clade comprising and from Anhui is the sister taxon of from Sichuan.

Four new species of Asian horned toads (Anura, Megophryidae, ) from southern China.

Recent phylogenetic analysis encompassing multilocus nuclear-gene and matrilineal mtDNA genealogy has revealed a series of cryptic species of the subgenus Panophrys within genus from southern and eastern China. This study demonstrates that the specimens from the hilly areas among Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan can be morphologically distinguished from all recognized congeners, thereby providing additional supports for the recognitions of four new species of , namely Megophrys (Panophrys) mirabilis Lyu, Wang & Zhao, from northeastern Guangxi, Megophrys (Panophrys) shimentaina Lyu, Liu & Wang, from northern Guangdong, and Megophrys (Panophrys) xiangnanensis Lyu, Zeng & Wang, and Megophrys (Panophrys) yangmingensis Lyu, Zeng & Wang, from southern Hunan. The descriptions of these species take the number of species to 101, 46 of which belong to the subgenus Panophrys.

Author Correction: Review of the genus (Anura: Megophryidae), with revalidation of and description of a new species from China.

Following the publication of our paper (Li et al., 2020), it has come to our attention that, due to our oversight, the contributions of some colleagues were not reflected in the "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" section. Hereby, we wish to add the following to the "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" section as a correction.

Review of the genus (Anura: Megophryidae), with revalidation of and description of a new species from China.

The genus-level recognition of monophyletic short-legged toads ( ) has been recently implicated in the taxonomic debate of . In the present study, is reasonably regarded as a distinct genus based on significant morphological differentiations and recent molecular analyses. Furthermore, a comprehensive review of this genus is performed, with two species groups proposed based on morphological differences and phylogenetic relationships.

Comprehensive approaches reveal three cryptic species of genus (Anura, Ranidae) from China.

Three cryptic species, which were previously reported as , are revealed on the basis of comprehensive approaches. Lyu, Wan, and YY Wang, is distributed in Nanling Mountains and southern Luoxiao Mountains, Lyu, Qi, and YY Wang, is known from northern Zhejiang, and Lyu and YY Wang, occurs in Xiangjiang River Basin, while the true is designated from Taiwan Island, northern Fujian, southern Zhejiang, and central Jiangxi. These three new species can be distinguished from all congeners by significant divergences in the mitochondrial 16S and CO1 genes, differences in advertisement calls, and the combination of multiple characteristics.

Re-examination of the Chinese record of (Squamata, Natricidae), resulting in the first national record of and description of a new species.

The taxonomic status of the previous record of Stuart & Chuaynkern, 2007 from Guangdong and Guangxi, southern China, is revised based on the comparison of morphological and molecular data collected from the Chinese specimens and the holotype of from Thailand and Ziegler, Pham, Nguyen, Nguyen, Wang, Wang, Stuart & Le, 2019 from Vietnam. Results reveal that the population from Shiwandashan Nature Reserve in southern Guangxi, China belongs to , and represents the first national record for China; the populations from western Guangdong and southeastern Guangxi are described as a new species, We suggest that should be removed from the Chinese herpetofauna checklist. The new national record of and the description of the new species bring the total number of to 13 in China.

Phylogenetic relationships of the Chinese torrent frogs (Ranidae: Amolops) revealed by phylogenomic analyses of AFLP-Capture data.

The torrent frog genus Amolops contains nearly sixty species distributed in swift mountain streams throughout southeast Asia. The taxonomy of this genus has proven complicated due to unstable morphological diagnostic characters. The relationships of Amolops species and species groups were not readily resolved with a small number of molecular markers.

A new species of Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from China, with taxonomic comments on A. liangshanensis and Chinese populations of A. marmoratus.

Amolops shuichengicus sp. nov., a new species of the A.