Volume 26, Issue 78, July - December, 2025

A new species of Nanorana Günther, 1896 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from western Yunnan, China

Shuo Liu^1,2, JiShan Wang³, Mian Hou⁴, Dingqi Rao^5♦

¹Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China
²Yunnan Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Information, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
³Southwest Survey and Planning Institute of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Kunming, Yunnan 650031, China
⁴College of Continuing (Online) Education, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610066, China
⁵Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China

^♦Corresponding Author
Dingqi Rao, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China

ABSTRACT

A new species of Nanorana is described based on five specimens collected from Yongde County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, China. Phylogenetically, the new species formed a distinct clade closely related to N. maculosa and N. chayuensis. Morphologically, the new species is most similar to N. maculosa, however, it can be distinguished from the latter by having relatively larger eyes, relatively smaller interorbital distance, relatively smoother and tighter skin, and incurved webbing between toes. This study brings the total number of recognized species of the genus Nanorana to 34, of which 25 occur in China.

Keywords: mitochondrion gene, morphology, phylogeny, spiny frog, taxonomy

Species, 2025, 26(78), e45s3205

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v26i78.e45s3205

Published: 25 October 2025