A New Species of the Genus <italic>Boulenophrys</italic> (Anura, Megophryidae) from Eastern Guangdong, China
Zhao‐Chi Zeng, Jian Wang, Honghui Chen, Weiwen XIAO, Binbin ZHAN, Yuan-Hang Li, Shi-Shi Lin
Abstract
<p indent="0mm">A new horned toad species, <italic>Boulenophrys</italic> <italic> elongata</italic> <bold>sp. nov.</bold>, is described from Mt. Lianhua, Huidong County, eastern Guangdong, China. The new species is phylogenetically closest to <italic> B</italic>. <italic>brachykolos</italic>, which is restricted to the east of the Pearl River Estuary (i.e., Shenzhen City and Hong Kong SAR). The new species can be distinguished from all recognized congeners by a combination of morphological characters and genetic divergences in the combined mitochondrial 16S, 12S and CO1 genes. We recommend the new species be listed as Data Deficient (DD) in the IUCN categorization, pending further investigation.