Sarawakiphrys dringi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Megophryidae
Subfamilia: Megophryinae
Genus: Sarawakiphrys
Species: Sarawakiphrys dringi

Name

Sarawakiphrys dringi (Inger, Stuebing & Tan, 1995)

• Holotype: BMNH 1978.20, adult ♂, collected by J. Dring on 27 August 1977.
• Type locality: “1650 m, Gunong Mulu National Park, Fourth Division, Sarawak”, Malaysia (Borneo).

Combinations

• Megophrys dringi Inger, Stuebing & Tan, 1995: 116 [original combination]
• Megophrys (Xenophrys) dringi — Dubois & Ohler, 1998: 14 [subsequent combination]
• Xenophrys dringi — Ohler, 2003: 23 [subsequent combination]
• "Megophrys" dringi — Mahony, Foley, Biju & Teeling, 2017: 267 [subsequent combination, incerti generis]
• Sarawakiphrys dringi — Lyu et al., 2023: 395 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Inger, R.F., Stuebing, R.B. & Tan, F.-L. 1995. New species and new records of anurans from Borneo. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 43: 115–132.
• Mahony, S., Foley, N.M., Biju, S.D. & Teeling, E.C. 2017. Evolutionary history of the Asian Horned Frogs (Megophryinae): integrative approaches to timetree dating in the absence of a fossil record. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(3): 744–771. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw267 Reference page. 
• Lyu, Z.-T., Qi, S., Wang, J., Zhang, S.-Y., Zhao, J., Zeng, Z.-C., Wan, H., Yang, J.-H., Mo, Y.-M. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2023. Generic classification of Asian horned toads (Anura: Megophryidae: Megophryinae) and monograph of Chinese species. Zoological Research 44(2): 380–450. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.372 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Oberhummer, E., Barten, C., Schweizer, M., Das, I. & Haas, A. 2014. Description of the tadpoles of three rare species of megophryid frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Gunung Mulu, Sarawak, Malaysia. Zootaxa 3835(1): 59–79. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3835.1.3 Reference page. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2018. IUCN: Sarawakiphrys dringi  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T57636A123692626. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T57636A123692626.en. Accessed on 11 February 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Dring's Horned Toad