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The genera Fejervarya and Minervarya in Myanmar: Description of a new species, new country records, and taxonomic notes (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae).

Title: The genera Fejervarya and Minervarya in Myanmar: Description of a new species, new country records, and taxonomic notes (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae)

Creators: Gunther Köhler, Linda Mogk, Khin Pa Pa Khaing & Ni Lar Than

Submitted March 23, 2019.
Accepted June 4, 2019.
Published online at www.senckenberg.de/vertebrate-zoology on June 19, 2019.
Published in print on Q2/2019.

DOI: 10.26049/VZ69-2-2019-05
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Published by Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

Date (Publication Year): 2019

Resource Type (General): TEXT

Resource Type (optional): Vertebrate Zoology, Scientific Article

Description: We describe a new species of frog, Fejervarya kupitzi from Myanmar, and record three species for the first time in this country: Fejervarya orissaensis, Minervarya chiangmaiensis, and M. muangkanensis. For these four species and for F. limnocharis which occurs in northern and eastern Myanmar and widely across Southeast Asia, we provide species accounts summarizing their variation in external morphology with an emphasis on Myanmar populations. We describe the advertisement call of F. orissaensis and M. muangkanensis, and we describe and illustrate the tadpole of F. orissaensis. And we provide an identification key to the five species of Fejervarya and Minervarya currently recognized in Myanmar.

Key words: Bioacoustics; cryptic species diversity; Fejervarya kupitzi sp. nov.Fejervarya limnocharisFejervarya orissaensisMinervarya chiangmaiensisMinervarya muangkanensis; tadpole morphology.

Citation: Köhler, G., Mogk, L., Khaing, K. P. P., Than, N. L. (2019). The genera Fejervarya and Minervarya in Myanmar: Description of a new species, new country records, and taxonomic notes (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae).  Vertebrate Zoology, 69(2): 183-226. https://doi.org/10.26049/VZ69-2-2019-05