Revision of the limnonectes kuhlii-like fanged frogs from Malaysian Borneo (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae)

Masafumi Matsui and Kanto Nishikawa and Tomohiko Shimada and Koshiro Eto and Amir Hamidy and Ahmad Sudin and Mohamad Yazid Hossman and Melvin Gumal and Charles Santhanaraju Vairappan (2024) Revision of the limnonectes kuhlii-like fanged frogs from Malaysian Borneo (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae). Current Herpetology, 43 (2). pp. 1-53. ISSN 13455834

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Abstract

A group of fanged frogs from Southeast and East Asia has long been considered a single widespread species Limnonectes kuhlii, but occurrence in this group of many cryptic species has recently been demonstrated mainly in the continent through molecular phylogenetic analyses. This led to similar analyses of populations from other parts of the known range, and phylogenetic relationships inferred for frogs from the island of Borneo through mitochondrial and nuclear DNA resulted in the presence of nearly 20 distinct lineages. We studied morphological variation in 13 of these lineages from the Malaysian part and confirmed their taxonomically distinct statuses. We applied existing names to three of them, L. conspicillatus, L. kong, and L. mocquardi, and described 10 remaining ones as new species.

Item Type:	Article
Keyword:	Borneo; Cryptic species; New species; Phylogeny; Taxonomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QE Geology > QE1-996.5 Geology > QE701-760 Paleontology Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR1-502 Microbiology > QR75-99.5 Bacteria
Department:	INSTITUTE > Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Depositing User:	ABDULLAH BIN SABUDIN -
Date Deposited:	04 Dec 2024 15:32
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2024 15:32
URI:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42099

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