Morphology, molecular genetics, and acoustics reveal two new species of the genus Leptobrachella from northwestern Guizhou Province, China (Anura, Megophryidae)

Jian Wang; Yu-Long Li; Yao Li; Hong-Hui Chen; Ya-Jun Zeng; Jing-Min Shen; Ying-Yong Wang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.848.29181

Morphology, molecular genetics, and acoustics reveal two new species of the genus Leptobrachella from northwestern Guizhou Province, China (Anura, Megophryidae)

Zookeys. 2019 May 20:848:119-154. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.848.29181. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Jian Wang¹, Yu-Long Li¹, Yao Li¹, Hong-Hui Chen¹, Ya-Jun Zeng², Jing-Min Shen², Ying-Yong Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol / The Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou China.
² Guizhou Academy of Forestry, Guizhou 550005, China Guizhou Academy of Forestry Guizhou China.

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Leptobrachella Smith, 1925, L.bijie J. Wang, Y.L. Li, Y. Li, H.H. Chen & Y.Y. Wang, sp. nov. and L.purpuraventra J. Wang, Y.L. Li, Y. Li, H.H. Chen & Y.Y. Wang, sp. nov., were described from northwestern Guizhou Province, China based on a combination of acoustic, molecular, and morphological data. The new discoveries bring the total number of this genus to 73, with 16 congeners recorded in China, and represent the second and third species of the genus reported from Guizhou Province.

Keywords: Acoustics; L.purpuraventra sp. nov.; Leptobrachellabijie sp. nov.; molecular phylogeny; morphology; taxonomy.