#kaloula

Banded Bullfrog aka Asian Painted Bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra), family Microhylidae, found throughout SE Asia

Phylogeographic pattern and taxonomic revision of the Kaloula baleata species complex (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) with description of two new species from Indochina

Vladislav A. Gorin, Nikolai L. Orlov, Andrey M. Bragin, et al.

Abstract

Despite increased attention by molecular taxonomists, the herpetofauna of Southeast Asia still hides many undescribed species among far-ranging taxa. In this study, we re-examine the mitochondrial diversity of painted frogs of the microhylid genus Kaloula, based on ~2,455 bp of published and new 12S and 16S rRNA sequences, and describe two new species from the tropical forests of southern Vietnam and central Laos based on integrative evidence. These species, which belong to the K. baleata complex, feature species-level mitochondrial divergence (> 4.4% at 16S rRNA) and are both morphologically well-differentiated from each other and from the recently described K. indochinensis, to which they were previously confounded...

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A banded bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra) in Pahang, Malaysia

Flower pot toad (Kaloula baleata)

Banded Bullfrog aka Asian Painted Bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra), family Microhylidae, Brunei

Phylogeographic pattern and taxonomic revision of the Kaloula baleata species complex (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) with description of two new species from Indochina

Gorin, Orlov, Bragin, et al.

Abstract

Despite increased attention by molecular taxonomists, the herpetofauna of Southeast Asia still hides many undescribed species among far-ranging taxa. In this study, we re-examine the mitochondrial diversity of painted frogs of the microhylid genus Kaloula, based on ~2,455 bp of published and new 12S and 16S rRNA sequences, and describe two new species from the tropical forests of southern Vietnam and central Laos based on integrative evidence... Our study emphasizes the continued need for thorough herpetological surveys even in supposedly well-known parts of Indochina and sets the ground for future research in Kaloula painted frogs, notably to test evolutionary and taxonomic hypotheses with genomic loci.

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Banded Bullfrog aka Asian Painted Bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra), male calling, family Microhylidae, Hong Kong