Oreolalax
Oreolalax is a genus of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.[1][2] They are mostly endemic to southwestern China, with one species in northern Vietnam (Oreolalax sterlingae),[1][3] and possibly extending into adjacent Laos. There is also a population in Arunachal Pradesh (Northeast India) that has not yet been assigned to a species,[1] although it might rather be a Scutiger.[3]
| Oreolalax | |
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| Oreolalax longmenmontis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Megophryidae |
| Genus: | Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962 |
| Type species | |
| Scutiger pingii Liu, 1943 | |
| Species | |
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19 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Atympanolalax Fei and Ye, 2016 – coined as a subgenus of Oreolalax | |
Species
The genus contains the following 19 species:[1][2]
- Oreolalax chuanbeiensis Tian, 1983
- Oreolalax granulosus Fei, Ye, and Chen, 1990
- Oreolalax jingdongensis Ma, Yang, and Li, 1983
- Oreolalax liangbeiensis Liu and Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax lichuanensis Hu and Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax longmenmontis Hou, Shi, Hu, Deng, Jiang, Xie, and Wang, 2020
- Oreolalax major (Liu and Hu, 1960)
- Oreolalax multipunctatus Wu, Zhao, Inger, and Shaffer, 1993
- Oreolalax nanjiangensis Fei and Ye, 1999
- Oreolalax omeimontis (Liu and Hu, 1960)
- Oreolalax pingii (Liu, 1943)
- Oreolalax popei (Liu, 1947)
- Oreolalax puxiongensis Liu and Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu and Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax rugosus (Liu, 1943)
- Oreolalax schmidti (Liu, 1947)
- Oreolalax sterlingae Nguyen, Phung, Le, Ziegler, and Böhme, 2013
- Oreolalax weigoldi (Vogt, 1924)
- Oreolalax xiangchengensis Fei and Huang, 1983
Endemic ranges
Many Oreolalax species are endemic to highly restricted geographical areas in the Eastern Himalayas, especially in Sichuan, China. The ranges often overlap with those of Scutiger species.
- Yunnan, China
- Sichuan, China
- Oreolalax nanjiangensis: Mount Guangwu (光雾山), Nanjiang County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax chuanbeiensis: Pingwu County and Mao County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax liangbeiensis: Puxiong (普雄镇), Yuexi County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax longmenmontis: Pengzhou, Sichuan
- Oreolalax puxiongensis: Puxiong (普雄镇), Yuexi County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax pingii: Zhaojue County and Yuexi County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax multipunctatus: Emeishan and Hongya counties, Sichuan
- Oreolalax omeimontis: Emeishan and Hongya counties, Sichuan
- Oreolalax major: central Sichuan
- Oreolalax schmidti: central Sichuan
- Oreolalax weigoldi: Washan, Sichuan
References
- Frost, Darrel R. (2020). "Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- "Megophryidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- Hou, Yinmeng; Shi, Shengchao; Hu, Daming; Deng, Yue; Jiang, Jianping; Xie, Feng & Wang, Bin (2020). "A new species of the toothed toad Oreolalax (Anura, Megophryidae) from Sichuan Province, China". ZooKeys (929): 93–115. doi:10.3897/zookeys.929.49748. PMC 7192958. PMID 32377150.
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