Matsui Masafumi, Zainudin Ramlah, Nishikawa Kanto
1 Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
Zoolog Sci. 2014 Nov;31(11):773-9. doi: 10.2108/zs140137.
A new megophryid species is described from southwestern Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. In appearance, Leptolalax marmoratus sp. nov. is most similar to L. hamidi also from southwestern Sarawak, but differs from it by mtDNA sequence, larger body size, and higher dominant frequency of advertisement call. The assumption that more than one species of Leptolalax coexist at one locality in Borneo is supported. The finding of the new species raises the species number of Leptolalax known from Borneo to nine, and the island is thought to be one of the diversification centers of the genus.
一种新的角蟾科物种在马来西亚婆罗洲砂拉越西南部被描述。外观上,大理石纹小姬蛙(Leptolalax marmoratus sp. nov.)与同样来自砂拉越西南部的哈氏小姬蛙(L. hamidi)最为相似,但在线粒体DNA序列、更大的体型以及求偶鸣叫的更高主频方面与之不同。婆罗洲一个地点存在不止一种小姬蛙共存的假设得到了支持。新物种的发现使婆罗洲已知的小姬蛙物种数量增加到9种,该岛屿被认为是该属的多样化中心之一。