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

作者：Djong Hon Tjong; Matsui Masafumi^*; Kuramoto Mitsuru; Nishioka Midori; Sumida Masayuki

来源：Zoological Science, 2011, 28(12): 922-929.

DOI：10.2108/zsj.28.922

• Fejervarya
• new species
• cryptic species
• East Asia
• Japan Mainland
• Ryukyu
• China
• Taiwan
• taxonomy

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.

• 出版日期2011-12