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Oreolalax

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Oreolalax
Oreolalax longmenmontis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Megophryidae
Genus: Oreolalax
Myers and Leviton, 1962
Type species
Scutiger pingii
Liu [fr], 1943
Species

21 species (see text)

Synonyms[1]

Atympanolalax Fei and Ye, 2016 – coined as a subgenus of Oreolalax

Oreolalax, commonly known as tooth toads, is a genus of frogs that belongs to the family Megophryidae.[1][2] Most species are endemic to China with some species being found in Vietnam and possibly Laos.[1][3][4]

Species

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The genus contains the following species:[1][2]

  1. Oreolalax adelphos Nguyen, Tapley, Kane, Tran, Cui & Rowley, 2024[5]
  2. Oreolalax chuanbeiensis Tian, 1983
  3. Oreolalax granulosus Fei, Ye & Chen, 1990
  4. Oreolalax jingdongensis Ma, Yang & Li, 1983
  5. Oreolalax liangbeiensis Liu & Fei, 1979
  6. Oreolalax lichuanensis Hu & Fei, 1979
  7. Oreolalax longmenmontis Hou, Shi, Hu, Deng, Jiang, Xie & Wang, 2020
  8. Oreolalax major (Liu & Hu, 1960)
  9. Oreolalax multipunctatus Wu, Zhao, Inger & Shaffer, 1993
  10. Oreolalax nanjiangensis Fei & Ye, 1999
  11. Oreolalax omeimontis (Liu & Hu, 1960)
  12. Oreolalax pingii (Liu, 1943)
  13. Oreolalax popei (Liu, 1947)
  14. Oreolalax puxiongensis Liu & Fei, 1979
  15. Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu & Fei, 1979
  16. Oreolalax rugosus (Liu, 1943)
  17. Oreolalax schmidti (Liu, 1947)
  18. Oreolalax sterlingae Nguyen, Phung, Le, Ziegler & Böhme, 2013
  19. Oreolalax wumengmontis X. Li et al. 2026[6]
  20. Oreolalax weigoldi (Vogt, 1924)
  21. Oreolalax xiangchengensis Fei & Huang, 1983

Endemic ranges

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Most member species are endemic to southwestern China, with at least two species in northern Vietnam (O. sterlingae and O. adelphos) and some possibly extending into adjacent Laos.[1][3][4] There is also a population in Arunachal Pradesh (Northeast India) that has not yet been assigned to a species,[1] although it may rather be assigned to the genus Scutiger.[3]

Many Oreolalax species are endemic to highly restricted geographical areas in the Eastern Himalayas, especially in Sichuan, China. The ranges often overlap with those of Scutiger species.

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Frost, Darrel R. (2020). "Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Megophryidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Hou, Yinmeng; Shi, Shengchao; Hu, Daming; Deng, Yue; Jiang, Jianping; Xie, Feng & Wang, Bin (2020). "A new species of the toothed toad Oreolalax (Anura, Megophryidae) from Sichuan Province, China". ZooKeys (929): 93–115. doi:10.3897/zookeys.929.49748. PMC 7192958. PMID 32377150.
  4. 1 2 Nguyen, Luan Thanh; Tapley, Benjamin; Kane, Daniel; Tran, Tuyet-Dzung Thi; Cui, Jiaxin; Rowley, Jodi J. L. (2024). "A new Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam". Zootaxa 5514 (6): 501–524.
  5. ↑ Nguyen, Luan Thanh; Tapley, Benjamin; Kane, Daniel; Tran, Tuyet-Dzung Thi; Cui, Jiaxin; Rowley, Jodi J. L. (2024). "A new Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam". Zootaxa 5514 (6): 501–524.
  6. ↑ Xianqi, Li; Zengxin, Li; Bizula, Jiahan; Xiaolong, Liu; Yinpeng, Zhang; Pengying, Li; Wei, Zhang; Feiqiao, Li; Junkai, Huang; Xu, Li; Zhiyong, Yuan (2026-03-18). "A New Species of Oreolalax Myers & Leviton, 1962 (Anura, Megophryidae) from Northeast Yunnan, China". Asian Herpetological Research. doi:10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2026.0014. ISSN 2095-0357.
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