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Oreolalax

{{Short description|Genus of frogs}}

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| image = Oreolalax longmenmontis holotype dorsal view.jpg

| image_caption = Oreolalax longmenmontis

| taxon = Oreolalax

| authority = Myers and Leviton, 1962

| type_species = Scutiger pingii

| type_species_authority = {{interlanguage link|Liu Cheng-chao|fr|Cheng-chao Liu|lt=Liu}}, 1943

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 19 species (see text)

| synonyms = Atympanolalax Fei and Ye, 2016 – coined as a subgenus of Oreolalax

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Oreolalax is a genus of frogs in the family Megophryidae. The common name for the genus is toothed toads. Most member species are endemic to southwestern China, with at least two species in northern Vietnam (Oreolalax sterlingae), and the newly discovered Oreolalax adelphos in 2024, and possibly extending into adjacent Laos.Nguyen, Luan Thanh; Tapley, Benjamin; Kane, Daniel; Tran, Tuyet-Dzung Thi; Cui, Jiaxin; Rowley, Jodi J. L. (2024). "A new Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam". Zootaxa 5514 (6): 501–524. There is also a population in Arunachal Pradesh (Northeast India) that has not yet been assigned to a species, although it may rather be assigned to the genus Scutiger.

Species

The genus contains the following species:

  1. Oreolalax adelphos Nguyen, Tapley, Kane, Tran, Cui & Rowley, 2024Nguyen, Luan Thanh; Tapley, Benjamin; Kane, Daniel; Tran, Tuyet-Dzung Thi; Cui, Jiaxin; Rowley, Jodi J. L. (2024). "A new Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam". Zootaxa 5514 (6): 501–524.
  2. Oreolalax chuanbeiensis Tian, 1983
  3. Oreolalax granulosus Fei, Ye & Chen, 1990
  4. Oreolalax jingdongensis Ma, Yang & Li, 1983
  5. Oreolalax liangbeiensis Liu & Fei, 1979
  6. Oreolalax lichuanensis Hu & Fei, 1979
  7. Oreolalax longmenmontis Hou, Shi, Hu, Deng, Jiang, Xie & Wang, 2020
  8. Oreolalax major (Liu & Hu, 1960)
  9. Oreolalax multipunctatus Wu, Zhao, Inger & Shaffer, 1993
  10. Oreolalax nanjiangensis Fei & Ye, 1999
  11. Oreolalax omeimontis (Liu & Hu, 1960)
  12. Oreolalax pingii (Liu, 1943)
  13. Oreolalax popei (Liu, 1947)
  14. Oreolalax puxiongensis Liu & Fei, 1979
  15. Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu & Fei, 1979
  16. Oreolalax rugosus (Liu, 1943)
  17. Oreolalax schmidti (Liu, 1947)
  18. Oreolalax sterlingae Nguyen, Phung, Le, Ziegler & Böhme, 2013
  19. Oreolalax weigoldi (Vogt, 1924)
  20. Oreolalax xiangchengensis Fei & Huang, 1983

Endemic ranges

Many Oreolalax species are endemic to highly restricted geographical areas in the Eastern Himalayas, especially in Sichuan, China. The ranges often overlap with those of Scutiger species.

References

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{{cite web |url=http://amphibiaweb.org/lists/Megophryidae.shtml |title=Megophryidae |year=2020 |work=AmphibiaWeb |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |accessdate=2 November 2020}}

{{cite web |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Megophryidae/Leptobrachiinae/Oreolalax |title=Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2020 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |doi=10.5531/db.vz.0001 |accessdate=2 November 2020}}

{{cite journal |last1=Hou |first1=Yinmeng |last2=Shi |first2=Shengchao |last3=Hu |first3=Daming |last4=Deng |first4=Yue |last5=Jiang |first5=Jianping |last6=Xie |first6=Feng |last7=Wang |first7=Bin |name-list-style=amp |title=A new species of the toothed toad Oreolalax (Anura, Megophryidae) from Sichuan Province, China |journal=ZooKeys |date=2020 |issue=929 |pages=93–115 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.929.49748|pmid=32377150 |pmc=7192958 |doi-access=free }}

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Category:Megophryidae

Category:Amphibians of Asia

Category:Amphibian genera

Category:Taxa named by Alan E. Leviton

Category:Taxa named by George S. Myers

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot