Keywords :
New Species; Genus Limnonectes; Limnonectes megastomias
บทคัดย่อ :
A new species of the dicroglossine genus Limnonectes from eastern Thailand and its tadpole are described. Analysis of DNA sequence data from 2518 base-pairs of the mitochondrial 12S and 16S gene regions places the species within the complex of frogs currently referred to as Limnonectes kuhlii and demonstrates it to be a separate lineage (>18% sequence divergence from type-material of L. kuhlii from Java). The new species differs from L. kuhlii by having nuptial pads, a greater snout-vent length, and different relative finger lengths than specimens from Java. It has more extensive toe web- bing, a different arrangement of nuptial pads, and a greater snout-vent length than Limnonectes laticeps. The new species, which lacks vocal slits, also can be distinguished from the morphologically similar Limnonectes namiyei from Japan, which possesses vocal slits.
เอกสารอ้างอิง :
Mcleod, D. S. (2008). A new species of big-headed, fanged dicroglossine frog (Genus Limnonectes) from Thailand. Zootaxa, 1807(1), 26-46.
