Kurixalus yangi, Yu, Hui, Rao, and Yang, 2018

Lalronunga, Samuel & Lalhmingliani, Esther, 2021, A new country record of Raorchestes cangyuanensis Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu Murphy & Che 2019 and additional record of Kurixalus yangi Yu, Hui, Rao & Yang 2018 (Anura: Rhacophoridae: Rhacophorinae) from India, Zootaxa 4974 (2), pp. 383-390 : 385

Kurixalus yangi

Individuals of Kurixalus yangi ( Figure 2 B-C) were collected from forested areas near streams and in open areas with rain fed water bodies adjacent to vegetation cover at Sailam (MZUHC 194, MZUHC 195, MZUHC 196), Hmuifang (MZUHC 199, MZUHC 330), Tamdil (MZUHC 539) and Reiek (MZUHC 1170, MZUHC 1171). In the ML tree ( Figure 2D ), the sample sequences from Mizoram formed a clade with K. yangi from Yunnan ( China), Kachin ( Myanmar) and Nagaland ( India). The genetic distance between the samples from Mizoram and the topotypic individual (Yunnan, China) is only 0.4% (Supplementary table 4). This represents a second confirmed record of this species from India as well as the westernmost known locality of this species. The genetic distance between the sample of K. yangi from Nagaland, India and other sequences of K. yangi is rather high (3.2–3.9%). However, the authors made a comment that their sequence is of low quality ( Humtsoe et al. 2020).

Figures

FIGURE 2. A) Map showing the locality records of Kurixalus yangi and Kurixalus naso based on published literatures and present study. B-C) In-situ photos of Kurixalus yangi from Mizoram, India. D) Maximum-likelihood tree of 16S rRNA dataset of 31 sequences. Letter in blue indicates the sequence from topotypic individual of K. yangi and letters in red indicates the newly generated sequences of K. yangi samples from India.