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Issue: Vol. 2744 No. 1: 19 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2744.1.4
Page range: 53–61
Abstract views: 107
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Specific separation of Polypedates braueri (Vogt, 1911) from P. megacephalus (Hallowell, 1861) (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae)

Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Institute of Natural and Environmental Sciences and Museum of Nature and Human Activities, University of Hyogo, Yayoigaoka 6, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1546, Japan
Animal Division, Taipei Zoo, No. 30, Section 2, Xinguang Road, Taipei 116, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Amphibia Polypedates leucomystax mtDNA acoustics Hong Kong Taiwan lectotype designation

Abstract

The Taiwan population of the Polypedates leucomystax complex has been assigned to P. megacephalus, which was originally described from Hong Kong. The Taiwan and Hong Kong populations, however, are markedly differentiated in DNA sequences, and advertisement call and morphological characteristics. The Taiwan population is therefore regarded as a distinct species, for which the name P. braueri (Vogt 1911) is available. Since the holotype of P. braueri was not designated, a lectotype is chosen among the nine syntypes examined.

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