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| Rana zhijinensis Luo, Xiao & Zhou, in Yan, He, Luo, Xu, Deng, Xiao et Zhou, 2022. |
The diversity of the brown frog genus Rana may be underestimated as the high similarity of morphological characters. In this study, a new species of Rana from Guizhou Province, China is described, namely Rana zhijinensis Luo, Xiao & Zhou, sp. nov. Molecular phylogenetic analyses clustered the new species into the R. japonica group of Rana and significant morphological characters can be distinguished from the 11 recognized species of the R. japonica group. This description increases the number of recognized Rana to 57 species and the R. japonica group to 12 species, and increases our knowledge of the diversity of the genus Rana.
Key words: Brown frogs, new species, diversity, taxonomy, morphology
Shasha Yan, Qingqing He, Tao Luo, Cheng Xu, Huaiqing Deng, Ning Xiao and Jiang Zhou. 2022. Description of A New Species of the Genus Rana (Anura: Ranidae) from western Guizhou, China, Integrating Morphological and Molecular Genetic Data. Zoological Systematics. 47(4); 275-292. zootax.com.cn/CN/Y2022/V47/I4/275
