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SUBMITTER: Zhao H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5672780 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhao Haipeng H Yang Junxiao J Wang Chunping C Li Pipeng P Murphy Robert W RW Che Jing J Yuan Zhiyong Z
ZooKeys 20170829 694
A new species of brown frog <i>Rana luanchuanensis</i> Zhao & Yuan, <b>sp. n.</b> 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 <i>R. amurensis</i> and <i>R. coreana</i>, 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 s ...[more]