Pelobatrachus edwardinae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Megophryidae
Subfamilia: Megophryinae
Genus: Pelobatrachus
Species: Pelobatrachus edwardinae

Name

Pelobatrachus edwardinae (Inger, 1989)

• Holotype: FMNH 148293, collected by F.W. King on 10 August 1963.
• Type locality: “Nanga Tekalit, Kapit District, Seventh Division, Sarawak”, Malaysia.

Combinations

• Megophrys edwardinae Inger, 1989: 230 [original combination]
• Borneophrys edwardinae — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean & Ohler, 2006: 15 [subsequent combination]
• Megophrys edwardinae — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang & Che, 2017: 41 [subsequent combination]
• Megophrys (Pelobatrachus) edwardinae — Mahony, Foley, Biju & Teeling, 2017: 754 [subsequent combination]
• Pelobatrachus edwardinae — Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li & Wang, 2021: 39 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Inger, R.F. 1989. Four new species of frogs from Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 42: 229–243.
• Delorme, M., Dubois, A., Grosjean, S. & Ohler, A. 2006. Une nouvelle ergotaxinomie des Megophryidae (Amphibia, Anura). Alytes 24(1-4): 6–21. Reference page. 
• Chen, J.-M., Zhou, W.-W., Poyarkov, Jr., N.A., Stuart, B.L., Brown, R.M., Lathrop, A., Wang, Y.-Y., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jiang, K., Hou, M., Chen, H.-M., Suwannapoom, C., Nguyen, S.N., Duong, T.V., Papenfuss, T.J., Murphy, R.W., Zhang, Y.-P. & Che, J. 2017. A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 28–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.004 Reference page. 
• Mahony, S., Foley, N.M., Biju, S.D. & Teeling, E.C. 2017. Evolutionary history of the Asian Horned Frogs (Megophryinae): integrative approaches to timetree dating in the absence of a fossil record. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(3): 744–771. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw267 Reference page. 
• Lyu, Z.-T., Zeng, Z.-C., Wang, J., Liu, Z.-Y., Huang, Y.-Q., Li, W.-Z. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2021. Four new species of Panophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from eastern China, with discussion on the recognition of Panophrys as a distinct genus. Zootaxa 4927(1): 9–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.1.2 Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Pelobatrachus edwardinae . Accessed on 23 July 2021.
• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2020. IUCN: Megophrys edwardinae  (Least Concern) (amended version of 2019 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T57578A176635978. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T57578A176635978.en

Vernacular names

English: Edwardina's Spadefoot Toad