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Three new species of the genus Boulenophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from southern China
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- 1. State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol/ The Museum of Biology, School of Ecology/ School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China & qishuo1992@outlook.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2924-6093 & These authors contributed equally to this work
- 2. State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol/ The Museum of Biology, School of Ecology/ School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China & lvzht@foxmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4891-3859 & These authors contributed equally to this work
- 3. State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol/ The Museum of Biology, School of Ecology/ School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China & wangj-1994@outlook.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4249-7767
- 4. Natural History Museum of Guangxi, Nanning, Guangxi 530012, China. moyunming@163.com
- 5. State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol/ The Museum of Biology, School of Ecology/ School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China & zhaochizeng@outlook.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4054-8399
- 6. Guangdong Shimentai National Nature Reserve, Qingyuan, Guangdong 513000, China
- 7. Herpetology Laboratory, Department of Biology, La Sierra University, Riverside, California 92515, USA & Department of Herpetology, San Diego Natural History Museum, PO Box 121390, San Diego, California, 92112, USA & lgrismer@lasierra.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8422-3698
- 8. State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol/ The Museum of Biology, School of Ecology/ School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China & wangyy@mail.sysu.edu.cn; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2024-6641
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Qi, Shuo, Lyu, Zhi-Tong, Wang, Jian, Mo, Yun-Ming, Zeng, Zhao-Chi, Zeng, Yang-Jin, Dai, Ke-Yuan, Li, Yuan-Qiu, Grismer, L. Lee, Wang, Ying-Yong (2021): Three new species of the genus Boulenophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from southern China. Zootaxa 5072 (5): 401-438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.5.1
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