A new species of Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southeastern Yunnan, China

In this study, based on morphological and molecular data, a new bush frog species is described from Yunnan, China. Eleven samples of Raorchestesmalipoensissp. nov. were collected from Malipo County, southeastern Yunnan. This species can be distinguished from other congeners by a combination of 13 mo...

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Autores principales: Huang, Junkai, Liu, Xiao Long, Du, Lingyun, Bernstein, Justin M., Liu, Shuo, Yang, Yun, Yu, Guohua, Wu, Zhengjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2023
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37235180
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1151.95616
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author Huang, Junkai
Liu, Xiao Long
Du, Lingyun
Bernstein, Justin M.
Liu, Shuo
Yang, Yun
Yu, Guohua
Wu, Zhengjun
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Liu, Xiao Long
Du, Lingyun
Bernstein, Justin M.
Liu, Shuo
Yang, Yun
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Wu, Zhengjun
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description In this study, based on morphological and molecular data, a new bush frog species is described from Yunnan, China. Eleven samples of Raorchestesmalipoensissp. nov. were collected from Malipo County, southeastern Yunnan. This species can be distinguished from other congeners by a combination of 13 morphological characters. Phylogenetic analyses based on the 16S rRNA gene indicate that these individuals form a monophyletic group, and genetic divergence between this clade and its closest relatives is higher than 3.1%, which is comparable to the divergence between recognized Raorchestes species. The discovery of this new species suggests that additional extensive surveys in the southeastern Yunnan would yield more amphibian lineages yet unknown to science.
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spelling pubmed-102084412023-05-25 A new species of Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southeastern Yunnan, China Huang, Junkai Liu, Xiao Long Du, Lingyun Bernstein, Justin M. Liu, Shuo Yang, Yun Yu, Guohua Wu, Zhengjun Zookeys Research Article In this study, based on morphological and molecular data, a new bush frog species is described from Yunnan, China. Eleven samples of Raorchestesmalipoensissp. nov. were collected from Malipo County, southeastern Yunnan. This species can be distinguished from other congeners by a combination of 13 morphological characters. Phylogenetic analyses based on the 16S rRNA gene indicate that these individuals form a monophyletic group, and genetic divergence between this clade and its closest relatives is higher than 3.1%, which is comparable to the divergence between recognized Raorchestes species. The discovery of this new species suggests that additional extensive surveys in the southeastern Yunnan would yield more amphibian lineages yet unknown to science. Pensoft Publishers 2023-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10208441/ /pubmed/37235180 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1151.95616 Text en Junkai Huang, Xiao Long Liu, Lingyun Du, Justin M. Bernstein, Shuo Liu, Yun Yang, Guohua Yu, Zhengjun Wu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Huang, Junkai
Liu, Xiao Long
Du, Lingyun
Bernstein, Justin M.
Liu, Shuo
Yang, Yun
Yu, Guohua
Wu, Zhengjun
A new species of Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southeastern Yunnan, China
title A new species of Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southeastern Yunnan, China
title_full A new species of Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southeastern Yunnan, China
title_fullStr A new species of Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southeastern Yunnan, China
title_full_unstemmed A new species of Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southeastern Yunnan, China
title_short A new species of Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southeastern Yunnan, China
title_sort a new species of bush frog (anura, rhacophoridae, raorchestes) from southeastern yunnan, china
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37235180
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1151.95616
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