Zoological Research ›› 2019, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (6): 564-574.doi: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2019.032
Special Issue: Amphibians & reptiles
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Yun-He Wu1,2,3,Chatmongkon Suwannapoom4,Nikolay A. Poyarkov,Jr.5,6,Parinya Paawangkhanant4,Kai Xu1,2,Jie-Qiong Jin1,Robert W. Murphy1,7,Jing Che1,3()
Received:
2019-06-29
Accepted:
2019-09-25
Online:
2019-11-18
Published:
2019-10-14
Contact:
Jing Che
E-mail:chej@mail.kiz.ac.cn
Supported by:
Yun-He Wu, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr., Parinya Paawangkhanant, Kai Xu, Jie-Qiong Jin, Robert W. Murphy, Jing Che. A new species of the genus Xenophrys (Anura:Megophryidae) from northern Thailand.2019.
Zoological Research, 40(6): 564-574.
Figure 2
BI tree resulting from 541 bp length fragment of mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene for Xenophrys species and outgroups Bayesian posterior probabilities (BPP)>95%/ML inferences (ML-BS)>70% are shown for each node. Hyphen (“-”) denotes a Bayesian posterior probabilities<95% and bootstrap support<70%."
Table 1
Measurements (in mm) of type series of Xenophrys angka sp. nov."
KIZ 040591* | KIZ 040592 | AUP-00076 | AUP-00055 | KIZ 040595 | AUP-00077 | |
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Sex | F | F | F | F | M | M |
SVL | 38.2 | 37.5 | 38.2 | 39.2 | 32.1 | 31.2 |
HDL | 12.9 | 12.8 | 12.7 | 13.0 | 11.3 | 11.5 |
HDW | 12.3 | 12.6 | 12.4 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 11.0 |
SNT | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
DNE | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
IND | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
IOD | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 2.7 |
UEW | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 2.5 | 2.9 |
ED | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
TD | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
TED | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
SN | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.1 |
IFE | 6.2 | 6.4 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 5.3 | 5.3 |
IBE | 10.4 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 9.6 | 9.0 | 9.2 |
FAL | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 8.6 | 6.4 | 6.4 |
HL | 9.4 | 9.7 | 9.7 | 9.3 | 8.7 | 8.6 |
THL | 17.6 | 18.5 | 18.1 | 17.6 | 14.8 | 14.0 |
TL | 18.7 | 18.8 | 18.7 | 18.6 | 16.0 | 15.5 |
FL | 15.7 | 16.8 | 17.2 | 16.5 | 15.6 | 14.3 |
IMTL | 1.6 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.7 |
FLI | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
FLII | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
FLIII | 6.2 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 |
FLIV | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
TLI | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
TLII | 4.2 | 4.4 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.9 |
TLIII | 7.0 | 6.1 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 5.6 |
TLIV | 9.8 | 10.1 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 8.7 | 8.2 |
TLV | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 4.0 |
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