Quasipaa boulengeri ( Guenther , 1889)

Luong, Anh Mai, Do, Quyen Hanh, Hoang, Chung Van, Phan, Tien Quang, Nguyen, Truong Quang & Pham, Cuong The, 2022, New records of amphibians from Bac Kan Province, Vietnam, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 75595-75595 : 75595

Quasipaa boulengeri ( Guenther, 1889)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IEBR A.4891 ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Quasipaa boulengeri; class: Amphibia ; order: Anura ; family: Dicroglossidae ; genus: Quasipaa ; specificEpithet: boulengeri; scientificNameAuthorship: Günther, 1889; Location : country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Bac Kan; locality: Nam Xuan Lac HSCA ; verbatimElevation: 773 m; verbatimLatitude: 22°17.525'N; verbatimLongitude: 105°30.993'E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS84; Event: eventDate: 27 August 2020; eventRemarks: collected by P. Q. Tien; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Amphibia; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IEBR A.4892 ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Quasipaa boulengeri; class: Amphibia ; order: Anura ; family: Dicroglossidae ; genus: Quasipaa ; specificEpithet: boulengeri; scientificNameAuthorship: Günther, 1889; Location : country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Bac Kan; locality: Nam Xuan Lac HSCA ; verbatimElevation: 762 m; verbatimLatitude: 22°16.372'N; verbatimLongitude: 105°31.150'E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS84; Event: eventDate: 28August 2020; eventRemarks: collected by P. Q. Tien; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Amphibia; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Size large (SVL 100.4-106.5 mm); head shorter than wide (HL 42.8-45.2 mm, HW 45.1-45.3 mm); snout obtusely pointed in dorsal view, longer than eye diameter (RL 15.6 mm, ED 10.9-12.5 mm); nostrils lateral, round, closer to eye than the tip of snout (NS 7.5-8.0 mm, EN 7.3-7.4 mm); canthus rostralis short, but distinct, loreal region oblique, shallowly concave; tympanum distinct, round; vomerine teeth present; tongue deeped notched. Forelimbs: Forearm short (FLL 17.4-21.4 mm), hand length (HAL 48.2-48.4 mm); relative finger lengths I <II <IV <III, tips of fingers obtuse or slightly swollen; fingers free of webbing. Hind-limbs: Thigh short (FeL 51.8-55.2 mm); tibia three times longer than wide (TbL 54.4 mm, TbW 19.4-20.2 mm); relative toe lengths I <II <V <III <IV; toes fully webbed; tibio-tarsal articulation reaching to the eye when leg adpressed along body. Skin: Skin of the upper parts covered with large elongated warts and small oval tubercles; supratympanic fold distinct; flanks with small round tubercles, more dense near dorsolateral folds; belly smooth.

Colouration in life: Dorsal surface of head body and flank dark grey; dorsum with black large elongated warts; dorsal surface of limbs with dark cross bars; ventral surface cream (Fig. 7 ) (determination after Liu (1950)).

Distribution

In Vietnam, Q. boulengeri was known from Cao Bang, Son La, Tuyen Quang and Nghe An Provinces ( Nguyen et al. 2009, Frost 2021). Elsewhere, this species has been recorded from China ( Frost 2021).

Ecology

Specimens were found in the stream, at 20:30 h. The surrounding habitat was mixed secondary forest of medium hardwoods and shrubs.

Figures

Figure 7. The female specimen of Quasipaa boulengeri (IEBR A. 4891; SVL 106.5 mm) in life.