New records of megophryids (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Son La Province, Vietnam

Anh Van Pham; Cuong The Pham; Lan Duc Doan; Thomas Ziegler; Truong Quang Nguyen

doi:10.3897/BDJ.7.e39140

New records of megophryids (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Son La Province, Vietnam

Biodivers Data J. 2019 Nov 7:7:e39140. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e39140. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Anh Van Pham¹, Cuong The Pham², Lan Duc Doan³, Thomas Ziegler^{4

5}, Truong Quang Nguyen^{2

6}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Tay Bac University, Son La City, Son La Province, Vietnam Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Tay Bac University Son La City, Son La Province Vietnam.
² Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology Hanoi Vietnam.
³ Tay Bac University, Son La City, Son La Province, Vietnam Tay Bac University Son La City, Son La Province Vietnam.
⁴ Cologne Zoo, Cologne, Germany Cologne Zoo Cologne Germany.
⁵ Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne Cologne Germany.
⁶ Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology Hanoi Vietnam.

Abstract

Background: The family Megophryidae is one of the most poorly known groups of amphibians in Son La Province, Vietnam. In the herpetofaunal list of Vietnam in 2009 only two species of megophryids were recorded from this province and recent studies have documented five additional species of Megophryidae from Son La Province.

New information: Based on recent field work in northern Vietnam, we report six new provincial records of the family Megophryidae from Son La Province, namely Leptobrachium ailaonicum, Leptobrachella sungi, Megophrys feae, M. jingdongensis, M. microstoma and M. parva. In addition, morphological data were provided for each species, based on newly collected specimens. Our findings bring the species number of the family Megophryidae to 13 in Son La Province.

Keywords: Distribution; morphology; taxonomy..

Anh Van Pham, Cuong The Pham, Lan Duc Doan, Thomas Ziegler, Truong Quang Nguyen.