A New Species of the Fejervarya limnocharis Complex from Japan (Anura, Dicroglossidae)

Hon Tjong Djong; Masafumi Matsui; Mitsuru Kuramoto; Midori Nishioka; Masayuki Sumida

doi:10.2108/zsj.28.922

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Hon Tjong Djong,^1,2 Masafumi Matsui,^3,* Mitsuru Kuramoto,⁴ Midori Nishioka,¹ Masayuki Sumida¹

¹1Institute for Amphibian Biology, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima
²4Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Andalas University, Padang 25136, West Sumatra, Indonesi
³2Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Jap
⁴33-6-15, Hikarigaoka, Munakata, Fukuoka 811-3403, Japan

^*Corresponding author. Phone: +81-75-753-6846; Fax :+81-75-753-6846; E-mail : fumi@zoo.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Abstract

We describe a new species of dicroglossid frog of the Fejervarya limnocharis complex from western Honshu, Japan Mainland. The new species, Fejervarya kawamurai, is genetically closer to F. sakishimensis than to F. limnocharis. It differs from F. sakishimensis by smaller tympanum, head, forelimb, hindlimb, foot, and tibia lengths, all relative to snout-vent length, and from F. multistriata by relatively shorter forelimb, hindlimb, foot, and tibia. From F. limnocharis and F. iskandari, it is differentiated by relatively smaller forelimb, hindlimb, foot, and tibia lengths. Taxonomic problems of Fejervarya populations occurring in Central Ryukyus, continental China, and Taiwan are discussed.

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Hon Tjong Djong, Masafumi Matsui, Mitsuru Kuramoto, Midori Nishioka, and Masayuki Sumida "A New Species of the Fejervarya limnocharis Complex from Japan (Anura, Dicroglossidae)," Zoological Science 28(12), 922-929, (1 December 2011). https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.28.922

Received: 5 January 2011; Accepted: 17 May 2011; Published: 1 December 2011

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