Scutiger wolong

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Megophryidae
Subfamilia: Leptobrachiinae
Genus: Scutiger
Species: Scutiger wolong

Name

Scutiger wolong Lyu, Gao, Huang, Wu, Jiang, Jiang & Li, 2024: 23

• Holotype: CIB 12168, adult ♂, collected by Junjie Huang on 31 May 2020.
• Type locality: “Wolong Town (30.9198°N, 103.0580° E, ca 2414 m a.s.l.), Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, China”.

References

Primary references

• Lyu, Z.-T., Gao, Z.-Y., Huang, J.-J., Wu, D.-H., Jiang, D.-C., Jiang, K. & Li, J.-T. [2024] 2025. A new species of Scutiger from Sichuan, China, previously misreported as S. chintingensis (Anura: Megophryidae). Asian Herpetological Research 16(1): 20–35. DOI: 10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2024.00490 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Wolong Alpine Toad