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Issue: Vol. 5399 No. 2: 11 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.2.5
Page range: 163-171
Abstract views: 182
PDF downloaded: 6

Advertisement calls from species of the Limnonectes hascheanus-limborgi complex (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from Peninsular Malaysia

School of Biological Sciences; Universiti Sains Malaysia; 11800 USM; Penang; Malaysia
School of Biological Sciences; Universiti Sains Malaysia; 11800 USM; Penang; Malaysia; Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies; Universiti Sains Malaysia; 11800 USM; Penang; Malaysia
School of Biological Sciences; Universiti Sains Malaysia; 11800 USM; Penang; Malaysia
School of Biological Sciences; Universiti Sains Malaysia; 11800 USM; Penang; Malaysia
Herpetology Laboratory; Department of Biology; La Sierra University; 4500 Riverwalk Parkway; Riverside; California; 92515; USA; Department of Herpetology; San Diego Natural History Museum; PO Box 121390; San Diego; California; 92112; USA.; Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation; Universiti Malaysia Sabah; Jalan UMS; 88400; Kota Kinabalu; Sabah; Malaysia
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation; Universiti Malaysia Sabah; Jalan UMS; 88400; Kota Kinabalu; Sabah; Malaysia; Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum; National University of Singapore; 2 Conservatory Drive; Singapore 117377
Amphibia Limnonectes hascheanus Limnonectes limborgi Limnonectes hascheanus-limborgi complex bioacoustics species-complexes geographic range molecular data morphological characters syntopic bioacoustics analysis advertisement calls neotype locality

Abstract

Limnonectes hascheanus and Limnonectes limborgi are two very similar-looking and closely related species and are sometimes referred to as the Limnonectes hascheanus-limborgi complex (Inger & Stuart 2010). Inger & Stuart (2010) tackled the systematics of the complex and confirmed the status of L. limborgi as a distinct species and not a junior synonym to L. hascheanus by providing molecular data and morphological characters of its distinctiveness. The geographic ranges of the two species were also reported to be distinct where L. hascheanus is mainly restricted to the southern part of the Thai-Malay Peninsula while L. limborgi is distributed from southern Myanmar north into northern Thailand and Laos before curving around into central Laos, northeastern Thailand, Cambodia, and southern Vietnam (Inger & Stuart 2010).

 

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