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A new species of the genus Odorrana Fei, Ye & Huang, 1990 (Anura, Ranidae) from southeastern Yunnan, China
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- 1. Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China|Yunnan Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Information, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- 2. Yunnan Wenshan National Nature Reserve Management and Protection Bureau, Wenshan, China
- 3. Wenshan City Management and Protection Sub-Bureau of Yunnan Wenshan National Nature Reserve, Wenshan, China
- 4. Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China
- 5. Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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A new species of the genus Odorrana is described based on specimens collected from Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The new species can be distinguished from other species of the genus by a combination of the following characteristics: snout–vent length 43.5–46.9 mm in males, females approximately two times size of males, head length greater than head width, nostril closer to tip of snout than to eye, tibiotarsal articulation reaching tip of snout when hindlimb stretched forward, relative lengths of fingers III > IV > I > II, dorsolateral fold absent, anterior dorsum green with evenly distributed small irregular shaped black blotches and posterior dorsum greyish brown with evenly distributed, large, irregular-shaped, black blotches, external vocal sacs present in adult males. In addition, the new species differs from its congeners by a genetic distance of 3.6%–14.2% in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene.
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