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1 February 2014 First Record of the Tree-Frog Genus Liuixalus from Vietnam with the Description of a New Species (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae)
Tao Thien Nguyen, Masafumi Matsui, Natsuhiko Yoshikawa
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Abstract

We record a tree frog of the genus Liuixalus for the first time from outside of China and describe it as a new species, Liuixalus catbaensis, on the basis of a single juvenile specimen collected from Cat Ba Island, northern Vietnam. The new species is easily distinguished from all other members of the genus Liuixalus by its uniformly brick-red dorsum lacking dark markings. The biogeographical significance of finding of this species in Vietnam is briefly discussed.

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Tao Thien Nguyen, Masafumi Matsui, and Natsuhiko Yoshikawa "First Record of the Tree-Frog Genus Liuixalus from Vietnam with the Description of a New Species (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae)," Current Herpetology 33(1), 29-37, (1 February 2014). https://doi.org/10.5358/hsj.33.29
Accepted: 1 November 2013; Published: 1 February 2014
KEYWORDS
Liuixalus catbaensis
mitochondrial phylogeny
Southeast Asia
taxonomy
zoogeography
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