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Type: Article
Published: 2015-05-08
Page range: 258–270
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A new caruncle-bearing Limnonectes (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from northeastern 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
Kasetsart University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand
Khon Kaen University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Mueang Khon Kaen, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh NC 27601, USA
caruncle Limnonectes gyldenstolpei Limnonectes dabanus Ubon Ratchathani

Abstract

A new species of the dicroglossid frog genus Limnonectes is described from Ubon Ratchathani Province, northeastern Thailand. Limnonectes lauhachindai sp. nov. differs from its congeners by having males with a low-profiled, U-shaped caruncle with free posterior margin that completely occupies, but does not extend beyond, the interobital region. The new species is most closely related to L. gyldenstolpei and L. dabanus. Its description brings the total number of caruncle-bearing species of Limnonectes to five.