A new species of the genus Rana from Henan, central China (Anura, Ranidae)

Abstract. A new species of brown frog Rana luanchuanensis Zhao & Yuan, sp. n. is described from Luanchuan County, western Henan, central China. The mitochondrial genealogy suggests that the new species is the sister taxon to the clade including R. amurensis and R. coreana, and is separated by un...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Haipeng, Yang, Junxiao, Wang, Chunping, Li, Pipeng, Murphy, Robert W., Che, Jing, Yuan, Zhiyong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5672780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29134001
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.694.12513
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Sumario:Abstract. A new species of brown frog Rana luanchuanensis Zhao & Yuan, sp. n. is described from Luanchuan County, western Henan, central China. The mitochondrial genealogy suggests that the new species is the sister taxon to the clade including R. amurensis and R. coreana, and is separated by uncorrected pairwise distances more than 12.5%. Morphologically, this new species differs from its congeners by a suite of characters. Analyses of partial sequences of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) resolve the new species as a single matriline.

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