A striking new species of phytotelm-breeding tree frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from central Vietnam

Zootaxa. 2014 Apr 2:3785:25-37. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.1.2.

Abstract

We describe a distinctive new species of phytotelm-breeding rhacophorid frog from central Vietnam. Gracixalus lumarius sp. nov. is distinguished from all other rhacophorids in Indochina by a combination of (1) medium body size (adult males 38.9-41.6 mm; adult female 36.3 mm), (2) dorsum brown diurnally and yellow nocturnally, (3) venter pink, (4) tympanum and supratympanic fold indistinct (5) iris dark gold with a dense, relatively uniformly distributed network of black reticulations, (6) dorsum with distinctive white conical tubercles in males, and (7) eggs deposited on wall of a phyptotelm. The new species is known from montane bamboo and montane evergreen forest in Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve in Kon Tum Province, between ~1845-2160 m elevation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anura / anatomy & histology*
  • Anura / classification*
  • Anura / genetics
  • Demography
  • Ecosystem
  • Female
  • Male
  • Phylogeny
  • Reproduction / physiology
  • Species Specificity
  • Trees
  • Vietnam