Morphology and Systematics of Kalophrynus interlineatus-pleurostigma Populations (Anura: Microhylidae: Kalophryninae) and a Taxonomy of the Genus Kalophrynus Tschudi, Asian Sticky Frogs
Author
Zug, George R.
text
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
2015
2015-04-15
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.11512244
0068-547X
11512244
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Kalophrynus honbaensis
Vassilieva, Galoyan, Gogoleva, and Poyarkov, 2014
Hon Bao Sticky Frog
Kalophrynus honbaensis
Vassilieva, Galoyan, Gogoleva, and Poyarkov, 2014
,
Zootaxa
3769(3):422 [
type
locality: “vicinity of the Yersin station on Hon Ba Mountain, Hon Ba Nature Reserve, Cam Lam District,
Khanh Hoa Province
,
Vietnam
(coordinates
12°07´16˝N
,
108°56´55˝E
,
elevation
1500 m
a.s.l.
)”]
.
TYPE
MATERIAL
.—
HOLOTYPE
: Zoological Museum of the Lomonosov Moscow University (
ZMMU
) A-4941
.
PARATYPE
:
ZMMU
A-4943
.
DEFINITION
.— Small to medium size, adult males 26.7– 36.
8 mm
SVL
(
n =
2); head moderately long 30–32 % HeadL/
SVL
; head wider than long 122–129 % HeadW/HeadL; naris closer to snout than to eye 62–71 % NarEye/SnEye; eye moderately large 34–37 % EyeD/HeadL; tympanum visible and smaller than eye 76–78 % Tymp/EyeD; slender moderately long forelimb NA % Forarm/
SVL
and forearm to crus length NA % Forarm/CrusL; hindlimb slender, moderately long 129–135 % HndlL/
SVL
, 39 % CrusL/
SVL
, and 95–97 % CrusL/ThghL; hindfoot well developed 86–99 % HndfL/CrusL.
Vomerine teeth absence; three palatal folds, vomerine one indistinct, postorbital small and smooth, buccal continuous and crenulated; tongue with rounded free end. Skin on margin of mandible smooth in males.
Fingers basal webbing; lengths 3>2>4>1; tips rounded and not dilated; subarticular tubercles prominent, round, and one on digits 1, 2, 4, and two on 3; one small oval palmar tubercle on outer half of palm, bordered distally by four small, round tubercles; smooth nuptial excrescences on base of fingers 2 and 3; no nuptial pad on dorsal surface of hand. Toes modestly webbed not extending beyond proximal subarticular tubercles of toe 4, lengths 4>3>5>2>1; tips rounded, slightly dilated; subarticular tubercles moderate, oval and one on digits 1, 2, two on 3, three on 4, two on 5 (only distal one prominent); moderate oval inner and small, round outer metatarsal tubercles.
In life, dorsum orangish yellow and immaculate, except for inguinal spot; body; dark brown laterally from snout through loris above tympanum onto trunk narrowing at midtrunk and ending before inguina; ventrolaterally fading to yellowish pink of venter; small round, black inguinal spot with faint light border; venter pale yellowish-pink, chin to mid chest dusky, belly largely immaculate.
ETYMOLOGY
.— The specific name derives from its presence in the Hon Ba Mountains.
DISTRIBUTION
.—
Vietnam
.
Known
only from the
type
locality
.
NATURAL
HISTORY
.—
Kalophrynus honbaensis
was found on the ground in a small patch of montane evergreen forest.
COMMENTS
.— Preceding information extracted from
Vassilieva et al. (2014)
.