Oreolalax is a genus of frogs in the family Megophryidae.[1][2] The common name for the genus is toothed toads. Most member species are endemic to southwestern China, with at least two species in northern Vietnam (Oreolalax sterlingae), and the newly discovered Oreolalax adelphos in 2024, and possibly extending into adjacent Laos.[1][3][4] There is also a population in Arunachal Pradesh (Northeast India) that has not yet been assigned to a species,[1] although it may rather be assigned to the genus Scutiger.[3]
| Oreolalax | |
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| Oreolalax longmenmontis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Megophryidae |
| Genus: | Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962 |
| Type species | |
| Scutiger pingii Liu, 1943
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| Species | |
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19 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Atympanolalax Fei and Ye, 2016 – coined as a subgenus of Oreolalax | |
Species
editThe genus contains the following species:[1][2]
- Oreolalax adelphos Nguyen, Tapley, Kane, Tran, Cui & Rowley, 2024[5]
- Oreolalax chuanbeiensis Tian, 1983
- Oreolalax granulosus Fei, Ye & Chen, 1990
- Oreolalax jingdongensis Ma, Yang & Li, 1983
- Oreolalax liangbeiensis Liu & Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax lichuanensis Hu & Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax longmenmontis Hou, Shi, Hu, Deng, Jiang, Xie & Wang, 2020
- Oreolalax major (Liu & Hu, 1960)
- Oreolalax multipunctatus Wu, Zhao, Inger & Shaffer, 1993
- Oreolalax nanjiangensis Fei & Ye, 1999
- Oreolalax omeimontis (Liu & Hu, 1960)
- Oreolalax pingii (Liu, 1943)
- Oreolalax popei (Liu, 1947)
- Oreolalax puxiongensis Liu & Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu & Fei, 1979
- Oreolalax rugosus (Liu, 1943)
- Oreolalax schmidti (Liu, 1947)
- Oreolalax sterlingae Nguyen, Phung, Le, Ziegler & Böhme, 2013
- Oreolalax weigoldi (Vogt, 1924)
- Oreolalax xiangchengensis Fei & Huang, 1983
Endemic ranges
editMany Oreolalax species are endemic to highly restricted geographical areas in the Eastern Himalayas, especially in Sichuan, China. The ranges often overlap with those of Scutiger species.
- Yunnan, China
- Sichuan, China
- Oreolalax nanjiangensis: Mount Guangwu (光雾山), Nanjiang County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax chuanbeiensis: Pingwu County and Mao County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax liangbeiensis: Puxiong (普雄镇), Yuexi County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax longmenmontis: Pengzhou, Sichuan
- Oreolalax puxiongensis: Puxiong (普雄镇), Yuexi County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax pingii: Zhaojue County and Yuexi County, Sichuan
- Oreolalax multipunctatus: Emeishan and Hongya counties, Sichuan
- Oreolalax omeimontis: Emeishan and Hongya counties, Sichuan
- Oreolalax major: central Sichuan
- Oreolalax schmidti: central Sichuan
- Oreolalax weigoldi: Washan, Sichuan
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Frost, Darrel R. (2020). "Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Megophryidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ a b Hou, Yinmeng; Shi, Shengchao; Hu, Daming; Deng, Yue; Jiang, Jianping; Xie, Feng & Wang, Bin (2020). "A new species of the toothed toad Oreolalax (Anura, Megophryidae) from Sichuan Province, China". ZooKeys (929): 93–115. doi:10.3897/zookeys.929.49748. PMC 7192958. PMID 32377150.
- ^ Nguyen, Luan Thanh; Tapley, Benjamin; Kane, Daniel; Tran, Tuyet-Dzung Thi; Cui, Jiaxin; Rowley, Jodi J. L. (2024). "A new Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam". Zootaxa 5514 (6): 501–524.
- ^ Nguyen, Luan Thanh; Tapley, Benjamin; Kane, Daniel; Tran, Tuyet-Dzung Thi; Cui, Jiaxin; Rowley, Jodi J. L. (2024). "A new Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam". Zootaxa 5514 (6): 501–524.
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