Mian Hou ^1* , Xiaopeng Peng ^2* , Jingling Miao ³ , Shuo Liu ⁴ , Pipeng Li ⁵ , Nikolai L. Orlov ⁶

1 College of Continuing (Online) Education, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610068, China
2 State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China
3 Beauty of Science, Anhui Xinzhi Digital Media Information Technology Co., Ltd, Hefei, 230088, China
4 Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650223, China
5 Institute of herpetology, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, 110034, China
6 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Science, St Petersburg State University, 199034, Russia
* These authors contributed equally to this work
http://zoobank.org/References/92E1C1DA-F6F4-4CCB-BEBC-E6D8AA63DBE8
Author    Correspondence author
Animal Molecular Breeding, 2021, Vol. 11, No. 2   doi: 10.5376/amb.2021.11.0002
Received: 20 Aug., 2021    Accepted: 13 Dec., 2021    Published: 27 Dec., 2021

This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Hou M., Peng X.P., Miao J.L., Liu S., Li P.P., and Orlov N.L, 2021, Description a new species of genus Kurixalus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China, Animal Molecular Breeding, 11(2): 1-16 (doi: 10.5376/amb.2021.11.0002)

Eight specimens of frilled swamp tree frogs of Genus Kurixalus were collected from Pingle Town, Qionglai County, Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China in April to May 2020. Based on morphological and molecular evidence, we describe these specimens as a new species of Kurixalus. Kurixalus silvaenaias sp. Nov., which are similar to K. idiootocus in appearance and phylogenetically are sister to each other, but morphologically the former can be distinguished from K. idiootocus and other congeners by the following combination of characters: body size 29.6-32.9 mm in males; single internal vocal sac; snout obtuse and rounded with no obvious dermal prominence on tip; vomerine teeth present; nuptial pads less developed, present on the base of first finger in males; throat coarsely granulated; tuberculated dorsal and lateral skin; outer metacarpal tubercles present; dorsal surface yellowish brown with a large hourglass shaped dark brown marking and without any green speckles; pair of large symmetrical dark blotches on chest; and abdomen dark purple. The new species is the first record of Kurixalus in Sichuan, China.

Kurixalus silvaenaias sp. Nov.; Chengdu; China; New species