Nanohyla hongiaoensis is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is also known as the Hongiao narrow-mouth frog. It is only known from Bidoup Nui Ba National Park in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam.[2] Little is known about the species or its distribution and so it is likely to be rated data deficient by the IUCN Red List.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Microhylidae |
| Genus: | Nanohyla |
| Species: | N. hongiaoensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Nanohyla hongiaoensis (Hoang, Nguyen, Luong, Nguyen, Orlov, Chen, Wang & Jiang, 2020)
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Nanohyla hongiaoensis is superficially similar to N. pulchella, but N. hongiaoensis is smaller and has differences in coloration.[1]
Taxonomy
editNanohyla hongiaoensis was originally described as Microhyla hongiaoensis, but a 2021 study using morphological and phylogenetic evidence moved nine species (including N. hongiaoensis) to a new genus, Nanohyla.[3]
Both the Hongiao narrow-mouth frog and its scientific specific epithet, hongiaoensis, are named for the type locality of the species, the Hon Giao forest in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d HOANG, Van Chung; LUONG, Mai Anh; NGUYEN, Quang Truong; ORLOV, Nikolai L.; CHEN, Youhua; WANG, Bin; JIANG, Jianping (2020). "A New Species of Microhyla(Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Langbian Plateau, Central Vietnam". Asian Herpetological Research. 11 (3): 161–182. doi:10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.190060.
- ^ a b Frost, Darrel R. (2021). "Nanohyla hongiaoensis (Hoang, Luong, Nguyen, Orlov, Chen, Wang, and Jiang, 2020)". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ^ Gorin, Vladislav A.; Scherz, Mark D.; Korost, Dmitriy V. & Poyarkov, Nikolay A. (2021-12-01). "Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97 (1): 21–54. doi:10.3897/zse.97.57968.
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