{"data":[{"source":"bio.acousti.ca","id":"53497","type":"article","title":"A new species of the genus Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Tay Nguyen Plateau, Central Vietnam","author":"NGUYEN, LUAN THANH; POYARKOV, NIKOLAY A. JR.; NGUYEN, TIEP TAN; NGUYEN, TAM AI; TRAN, VY HUU; GORIN, VLADISLAV A.; MURPHY, ROBERT W.; NGUYEN, SANG NGOC","editor":null,"year":"2019","month":null,"journal":"Zootaxa","booktitle":null,"series":null,"howpublished":null,"volume":"4543","number":"4","pages":"549","chapter":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"organization":null,"institution":null,"school":null,"address":null,"type_of_work":null,"note":null,"isbn":null,"issn":"1175-5326","doi":"10.11646\/zootaxa.4543.410.11646\/zootaxa.4543.4.4","url":"https:\/\/biotaxa.org\/Zootaxa\/issue\/view\/zootaxa.4543.4https:\/\/biotaxa.org\/Zootaxa\/article\/view\/zootaxa.4543.4.4","attachments":"https:\/\/bio.acousti.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/44389-151263-1-PB.pdf","keywords":"acoustics; amphibians; Gia Lai Province; Microhyla aurantiventris sp. nov.; Microhylinae; mtDNA genealogy; Tram Lap For- est","abstract":"We describe a new species of Microhyla from Tram Lap forest, Gia Lai Province, Central Vietnam based on morpholog- ical, molecular, and acoustic data. The new species resembles M. butleri morphologically, but differs from all congeners by a combination of the following morphological attributes: (1) medium-sized adult snout\u2013vent length 25.2\u201327.0 mm in 15 males and 30.5 mm in a single female; (2) body habitus moderately stocky; (3) head flat, snout rounded, slightly prom- inent in ventral profile; (4) dorsum and flanks slightly shagreened with evenly scattered tiny tubercles, ventral skin smooth; (5) first finger well developed, more than one-half the length of the second finger; (6) tips of three outer fingers slightly enlarged, forming weak disks and tips of all toes distinctly dilated into wide disks with narrow peripheral grooves; (7) finger and toe disks with dorsal median longitudinal grooves; (8) three palmar tubercles and two metatarsal tubercles; (9) tibiotarsal articulation of adpressed limb reaching slightly beyond the orbit; (10) webbing formula: I 13\u20444\u20132 II 11\u20442\u201323\u20444 III 2\u201331\/3 IV 31\u20444\u201311\u20442 V; (11) in life, chin and throat yellowish to bright-orange with tiny dark brown speckling laterally; and (12) a call consisting of 15\u201326 pulses with a dominant frequency of 1.8\u20132.2 kHz (recorded at 18.5oC). We also provide a preliminary genealogy of Microhyla based on analysis of a 2644 bp fragment of 12S\u201316S rRNA mitochondrial DNA. Based on the examed data, the new species and M. butleri are sister-species (genetic p-distance: 9.0%) and it can be dis- tinguished from M. butleri by its morphology (size, webbing on toes, color) and advertisement call. Interspecific genetic p-distances between the new species and its congeners vary from 9.0% to 14.8%. Microhyla aurantiventris sp. nov. occurs in evergreen montane tropical forests at elevations around 1200 m a.s.l. and is known only from the type locality. The new species appears to be threatened due to intensive logging and agriculture plantation.","type_name":"Journal Article","journal_abbreviation":"Zootaxa","pmid":null,"info_url":"https:\/\/bio.acousti.ca\/node\/53497"}]}