A new species of (Anura, Rhacophoridae) from Yunnan Province, China.

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Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection, Guangxi Normal University, Ministry of Education, Guilin 541004, China.

Published: February 2024

A new bush frog species is described from Yunnan, China, based on phylogenetic analyses, species delimitation analyses, and morphological comparisons. is distinguished from all other congeners by a combination of 11 morphological characters. The new species brings the current number of species in China to ten, nine of which are distributed in Yunnan. Molecular analyses supported an unnamed lineage previously recorded as "" in northern Vietnam. Further studies including additional samples are necessary to clarify the species diversity and boundaries of in China and Indochina.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10905625PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1192.106013DOI Listing

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