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Issue: Vol. 4375 No. 3: 25 Jan. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.3.2
Page range: 325–340
Abstract views: 112
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A new Limnonectes (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from southern Laos

National University of Laos, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, P.O. Box 2273, Dong Dok Campus, Vientiane, Laos
National University of Laos, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, P.O. Box 2273, Dong Dok Campus, Vientiane, Laos
National University of Laos, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, P.O. Box 2273, Dong Dok Campus, Vientiane, Laos Kasetsart University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand
Kasetsart University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand
Kasetsart University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand
Wild Earth Allies, #77a, St. Betong, Bayap Village, Sk. Phnom Penh Thmei, Kh. Sen Sok, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Kasetsart University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh NC 27601, USA
Bolaven Plateau Champasak Province coffee industry Laos Limnonectes kohchangae Anura

Abstract

A new species of “fanged frog” in the genus Limnonectes resembling L. kohchangae (Smith, 1922) from southeastern Thailand and southwestern Cambodia is described from upper elevations of the Bolaven Plateau, southern Laos. However, the new species, L. coffeatus sp. nov., is not resolved to be the closest relative of L. kohchangae, and is further distinguished from this taxon by differences in skin texture and coloration. The new species is potentially threatened from extensive conversion of forest into coffee plantations on the Bolaven Plateau.

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