Biology:Kuhl's creek frog

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Short description: Species of amphibian

Kuhl's creek frog
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Genus: Limnonectes
Species:
L. kuhlii
Binomial name
Limnonectes kuhlii
(Tschudi, 1838)[2]
Synonyms

Rana kuhlii Tschudi, 1838

Kuhl's creek frog or large-headed frog (Limnonectes kuhlii) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.

Species complex

L. kuhlii was once believed to have a broad distribution in Northeast India (Assam) and Southeast Asia, but a phylogenetic analysis in 2010 demonstrated that there were at least 16 morphologically similar, but genetically distinct evolutionary lineages subsumed under the name.[3]

Already, several populations that were previously identified as L. kuhlii have been formally described as new species: L. fujianensis and L. bannaensis of China, L. nguyenorum and L. quangninhensis of Vietnam, L. jarujini, L. taylori, L. isanensis, and L. megastomias of Thailand, and L. sisikdagu from Indonesia.[2] The original specimen of L. kuhlii was found in Java, and that is the only area where the "true" species occurs with certainty.[2]

Phylogeny

Below is a phylogeny of species within the L. kuhlii species complex (McLeod, et al. 2015).[4]

Limnonectes kuhlii (Java)

Limnonectes sisikdagu

Limnonectes fragilis

Limnonectes bannaensis

Limnonectes namiyei

Limnonectes fujianensis

Limnonectes jarujini

Limnonectes nguyenorum

Limnonectes isanensis

Limnonectes taylori

Limnonectes megastomias

References

  1. Peter Paul van Dijk, Djoko Iskandar, Robert Inger, Michael Wai Neng Lau, Yang Datong, Annemarie Ohler, Lu Shunqing, Saibal Sengupta, Sabitry Bordoloi (2004). "Limnonectes kuhlii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58346A11769961. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58346A11769961.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/58346/11769961. Retrieved 15 November 2021. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Limnonectes kuhlii (Tschudi, 1838)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Dicroglossidae/Dicroglossinae/Limnonectes/Limnonectes-kuhlii. Retrieved 19 April 2014. 
  3. McLeod, D.S. (2010). "Of Least Concern? Systematics of a cryptic species complex: Limnonectes kuhlii (Amphibia; Anura: Dicroglossidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56 (3): 991–1000. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.004. PMID 20385247. 
  4. McLeod, Kurlbaum & Hoang, 2015 : More of the same: a diminutive new species of the Limnonectes kuhlii complex from northern Vietnam (Anura: Dicroglossidae). Zootaxa, No. 3947, p. 201–214.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q702898 entry