Odorrana lipuensis Mo, Chen, Wu, Zhang & Zhou, 2015

Luong, Anh Mai, Do, Quyen Hanh, Hoang, Chung Van, Phan, Tien Quang, Nguyen, Truong Quang & Pham, Cuong The, 2022, New records of amphibians from Bac Kan Province, Vietnam, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 75595-75595 : 75595

Odorrana lipuensis Mo, Chen, Wu, Zhang & Zhou, 2015

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IEBR A.4893 ; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Odorrana lipuensis; class: Amphibia ; order: Anura ; family: Ranidae ; genus: Odorrana ; specificEpithet: lipuensis; scientificNameAuthorship: Mo , Chen , Wu , Zhang & Zhou, 2015; Location : country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Bac Kan; locality: Nam Xuan Lac HSCA ; verbatimElevation: 723 m; verbatimLatitude: 22°16.450'N; verbatimLongitude: 105°30.712'E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS84; Event: eventDate: 25 August 2020; eventRemarks: collected by L. M. Anh, D. H. Quyen, and P. Q. Tien; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Amphibia; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IEBR A.4894 ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificNameID: Odorrana lipuensis; scientificName: Odorrana lipuensis; class: Amphibia ; order: Anura ; family: Ranidae ; genus: Odorrana ; specificEpithet: lipuensis; scientificNameAuthorship: Mo , Chen , Wu , Zhang & Zhou, 2015; Location : country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Bac Kan; locality: Nam Xuan Lac HSCA ; verbatimElevation: 864 m; verbatimLatitude: 22°17.260'N; verbatimLongitude: 105°31.138'E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS84; Event: eventDate: 24April 2021; eventRemarks: collected by H. V. Chung and P. Q. Tien; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Amphibia; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Size medium (SVL 45.2 mm in male; SVL 53.7 mm in female); head longer than wide (HL 17.1 mm, HW 14.8 mm in male; HL 21.4 mm, HW 18.6 mm in female); snout obtusely round in dorsal view, longer than eye diameter (RL 6.6 mm, ED 5.1 mm in male; RL 8.0 mm, ED 6.6 mm in female); nostrils round, closer to the tip of snout than to eye (NS 2.6 mm, EN 4.1 mm in male; NS 3.4 mm, EN 5.3 mm in female); canthus rostralis distinct, loreal region slightly concave and oblique; tympanum distinct round; vomerine teeth present; tongue deeply notched posteriorly. Forelimbs: Forearm slender (FLL 10.3 mm in male; FLL 11.8 mm in female), hand length (HAL 24.0 mm in male; HAL 30.1 mm in female); relative finger lengths I <II <IV <III, tips of fingers enlarged into discs; fingers free of webbing. Hind-limbs: Thigh slender (FeL 23.7 mm in male; FeL 29.7 mm in female); tibia five times longer than wide in the male (TbL 26.3 mm, TbW 4.6 mm), six times longer than wide in the female (TbL 32.8 mm, TbW 5.0 mm); relative toe lengths I <II <III <V <IV; webbing formula I ½-½II0-1III0-1½ IV1-0V; tibio-tarsal articulation reaching to the nostril when leg adpressed along body. Skin: Dorsal surface of head and body smooth; tiny spinules on flanks, upper edge of eyelid; anterior and posterior edge of tympanum; supratympanic fold indistinct, dorsolateral fold absent; throat, chest, belly and ventral surface of thigh smooth.

Colouration in life: Dorsum and upper part of flanks moss green with brown mottles, dorsal surface of limbs moss green with dark brown cross bars; upper lip with dark brown bars; throat, chest and belly cream with dark brown mottles (Fig. 8 ) (determination after Mo et al. (2015), Pham et al. (2016)).

Distribution

In Vietnam, O. lipuensis was known from Cao Bang and Tuyen Quang Provinces ( Pham et al. 2016, Frost 2021). Elsewhere, this species has been recorded from China ( Frost 2021).

Ecology

Specimens were found on trees, between 20:00 and 20:30 h, near the waterfall in a rocky stream. The surrounding habitat was mixed secondary forest of small hardwoods, shrubs and vines.

Figures

Figure 8. The male specimen of Odorrana lipuensis (IEBR A. 4893; SVL 45.2 mm) in life.