西藏湍流蛙类一新种(英文)

A NEW SPECIES OF CASCADE FROG (AMPHIBIA,RANIDAE) FROM TIBET,CHINA

在西藏墨脱采集到1种与Odorrana graminea、O.chloronota和O.livida体背绿色和指端膨大具沟的湍流蛙类相近的物种,经鉴定为新种,命名为墨脱臭蛙Odorrana zhaoi。新种具有以下主要特征:上唇缘具有金黄色条纹;鼓膜圆形,显著,TD:ED为0.56 ;背侧褶弱,背部皮肤除后部有小疣粒外光滑,体侧有疣粒和小刺; 4肢背面有横斑纹;无外突;雄性具1对外声囊和咽胸部椭圆形小刺团,无肱腺。

A new cascade frog, superficially resembling Odorrana graminea, O. chloronota and O. livida in having green color dorsally and ventral circummarginal grooves around the discs of the fingers, has been found in Medog County of Tibet （Xizang Autonomous Region）, China. The new species （ Odorrana zhaoi） is characterized by a combination of the following main attributes： 1） a golden upper tip strip from tip of snout and along the upper jaws extending to insertion of arm; 2） tympanum circular, very distinct and depressed with rim, TD： ED 0.56 in male; 3） dorsolateral fold weak, dorsum smooth except granular in posterior part, venter smooth except for a granular region under the thighs; 4） limbs with transverse bands of distinct blotches to tips of digits; 5） Tips of all fingers expanded with ventral circunmmar ginal grooves, about 1.5 to two times the width of phalanges in figures Ⅲ and Ⅳ ; 6） inner metatarsal tubercle distinct and ovoid, no outer metatarsal tubercle; 7） feet fully webbed to disks; 8） male with velvety nuptial pad on thumb, paired external subgular pouches but no humeral giands, fine spinules in an ovoid duster on throat and chest.