A new species of the genus Rana from Henan, central China (Anura, Ranidae)

Haipeng Zhao; Junxiao Yang; Chunping Wang; Pipeng Li; Robert W Murphy; Jing Che; Zhiyong Yuan

doi:10.3897/zookeys.694.12513

A new species of the genus Rana from Henan, central China (Anura, Ranidae)

Zookeys. 2017 Aug 29:(694):95-108. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.694.12513. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Haipeng Zhao^{1

2

3}, Junxiao Yang^{1

2}, Chunping Wang⁴, Pipeng Li⁵, Robert W Murphy^{2

6}, Jing Che¹, Zhiyong Yuan⁷

Affiliations

¹ Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, Yunnan, China.
² Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, Yunnan, China.
³ School of Life Science, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, Henan, China.
⁴ Henan Forestry Survey and Planning Institute, Zhengzhou 450045, Henan, China.
⁵ Center for Chinese Endemic Herp-breeding and Conservation Research, and Liaoning Key Laboratory of Evolution and Biodiversity, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China.
⁶ Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada.
⁷ College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, Yunnan, China.

Abstract

A new species of brown frog Rana luanchuanensis Zhao & Yuan, sp. n. is described from Luanchuan County, western Henan, central China. The mitochondrial genealogy suggests that the new species is the sister taxon to the clade including R. amurensis and R. coreana, and is separated by uncorrected pairwise distances more than 12.5%. Morphologically, this new species differs from its congeners by a suite of characters. Analyses of partial sequences of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) resolve the new species as a single matriline.

Keywords: Brown frog; DNA barcode; Rana luanchuanensis sp. n.; genealogy.