Nanohyla hongiaoensis is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is also known as the Hongiao narrow-mouth frog. It is only known from Bidoup Nui Ba National Park in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam.[2] Little is known about the species or its distribution and so it is likely to be rated data deficient by the IUCN Red List.[1]

Nanohyla hongiaoensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Genus: Nanohyla
Species:
N. hongiaoensis
Binomial name
Nanohyla hongiaoensis
(Hoang, Nguyen, Luong, Nguyen, Orlov [fr], Chen, Wang & Jiang, 2020)
Synonyms[2]
  • Microhyla hongiaoensis Hoang, Nguyen, Luong, Nguyen, Orlov, Chen, Wang & Jiang, 2020[1]

Nanohyla hongiaoensis is superficially similar to N. pulchella, but N. hongiaoensis is smaller and has differences in coloration.[1]

Taxonomy

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Nanohyla hongiaoensis was originally described as Microhyla hongiaoensis, but a 2021 study using morphological and phylogenetic evidence moved nine species (including N. hongiaoensis) to a new genus, Nanohyla.[3]

Both the Hongiao narrow-mouth frog and its scientific specific epithet, hongiaoensis, are named for the type locality of the species, the Hon Giao forest in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d HOANG, Van Chung; LUONG, Mai Anh; NGUYEN, Quang Truong; ORLOV, Nikolai L.; CHEN, Youhua; WANG, Bin; JIANG, Jianping (2020). "A New Species of Microhyla(Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Langbian Plateau, Central Vietnam". Asian Herpetological Research. 11 (3): 161–182. doi:10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.190060.
  2. ^ a b Frost, Darrel R. (2021). "Nanohyla hongiaoensis (Hoang, Luong, Nguyen, Orlov, Chen, Wang, and Jiang, 2020)". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  3. ^ Gorin, Vladislav A.; Scherz, Mark D.; Korost, Dmitriy V. & Poyarkov, Nikolay A. (2021-12-01). "Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97 (1): 21–54. doi:10.3897/zse.97.57968.