A New Species of the Genus Rhacophorus (Anura： Rhacophoridae) from Dabie Mountains in East China

作     者：Tao PAN Yanan ZHANG Hui WANG Jun WU Xing KANG Lifu QIAN Kai LI Yu ZHANG Jinyun CHEN Dingqi RAO Jianping JIANG Baowei ZHANG 

作者机构：Anhui Key Laboratory of Eco-engineering and Bio-techniqueSchool of Life SciencesAnhui UniversityHefei 230601AnhuiChina Ministry of Envtronmental ProtecttonNanjing Institute of Environmental SciencesNanjing 210042JiangsuChina Department of Life ScienceHuainan Normal UniversityHuainan 232001AnhuiChina Kunming Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesKunming 650223YunnanChina Chengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu 610041SichuanChina School of BiosciencesCardiff UniversityCardiffCF103AXUnited Kingdom 

出 版 物：《Asian Herpetological Research》 (亚洲两栖爬行动物研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第18卷第1期

页      面：1-13页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 090601[农学-基础兽医学] 07[理学] 09[农学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 071002[理学-动物学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31272332, 31071894, 30911120031, 30670243) Anhui Province Higher Education Revitalization Plan 2014 Colleges and Universities Outstanding Youth Talent Support Program Foundation for Graduate Student Academic Innovation Research Project of Anhui University (yqh100081) the Foundation for College Student Innovation & Venture Project of Anhui University(201610357026) 

主　　题：Rhacophorus Rhacophorus zhoukaiyae sp. nov. phylogeny Rhacophoridae Dabie Mountains 

摘      要：A new species of rhacophorid of the genus Rhacophorus is described from the Dabie Mountains of west Anhui, east China. The new species, Rhacophorus zhoukaiyae sp. nov. is distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following characters： 1） the ventral surface and front-and-rear of the femur is paler yellowish and decorated with irregular grayish blotching, and without obvious spots on the dorsum of the hand and foot webbing; 2） the outer metatarsal tubercle is small; 3） outer fingers are half-webbed and outer toes two third webbed; 4） the skin on the dorsum is smooth and without compressed warts; 5） the throat, chest and belly are pure paler yellowish; 6） the dorsal part of the fingers and toes are grayish-white; 7） the iris is golden-yellow. In addition, the phylogenetic tree showed that all the individuals of R. zhoukaiyae sp. nov. clustered into one distinct clade which suggested the validity of this species. This results could also be used to the support of species delimitation. Currently, this species is known only from mid-elevation montane evergreen forest in the Dabie Mountains of west Anhui, China.