<i>Amolops cuongi</i> (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae), a new species from the Hoang Lien Range, Vietnam.

ABSTRACT: A new species of the genus Amolops is described from the Hoang Lien Range, northwestern Vietnam as Amolops cuongi sp. nov. While morphological and molecular data assign these individuals to the Amolops mantzorum group, the new species is distinguishable from its congeners on the basis of a combination of the following diagnostic characters: size small (SVL 33.9-36.9 mm in males; 37.9-44.4 mm in females); head longer than wide; vomerine teeth absent or weakly developed; snout short (SE/SVL 0.15-0.17 in males; 0.14-0.16 in females); tympanum small (TD/ED 0.26-0.37 in males; 0.25-0.35 in females); the absence of circummarginal groove on the first finger; disc of finger III larger than tympanum; supratympanic fold present; dorsolateral fold absent; webbing formula I

SUBMITTER: Pham AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12572962 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature