A new country record of Raorchestes cangyuanensis Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu Murphy & Che 2019 and additional record of Kurixalus yangi Yu, Hui, Rao & Yang 2018 (Anura: Rhacophoridae: Rhacophorinae) from India
Author
Lalronunga, Samuel
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Author
Lalhmingliani, Esther
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-20
4974
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.7
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Raorchestes cangyuanensis
Individuals
of
Raorchestes cangyuanensis
(
Figure 1B
) were collected from forested area in
Hmuifang
(
MZUHC 324
,
MZUHC 325
) and near human settlements in
Aizawl
city (
MZUHC 331
).
The
samples from
Mizoram
,
India
formed a clade with the
type
specimens of
R. cangyuanensis
in the
ML
tree (
Figure 1C
) with a genetic distance of only 0.6% (
Supplementary
table 3), and represents the first record of this species in
India
.
Sequences
submitted to
GenBank
as
R. longchuanensis
from
Longchuan
,
China
(accession number
GQ
285675
);
Satchari National Park
,
Bangladesh
(accession numbers
MH699074
,
MN193412
,
MN193413
,
MN193414
) and northeast
India
(location not specified, accession number
MH
423740
) also formed a clade with the
type
specimens of
R. cangyuanensis
and the newly generated sequences from
Mizoram
,
India
.