A new species of Rhacophorus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Gunung Gading, Sarawak
A new species of rhacophorid of the genus Rhacophorus is described from Gunung Gading National Park, Sarawak, western Borneo. Rhacophorus gadingensis , new species, is compared with congeners from Borneo and other parts of southeast Asia. The new species is diagnosable in showing the follo...
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National University of Singapore
2005
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11653/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11653/1/A%20new%20species%20of%20rhacophorus%20%28abstract%29.pdf |
| Summary: | A new species of rhacophorid of the genus
Rhacophorus
is described from Gunung Gading
National Park, Sarawak, western Borneo.
Rhacophorus gadingensis
, new species, is compared with congeners
from Borneo and other parts of southeast Asia. The new species is diagnosable in showing the following
combination of characters: SVL 29.5 mm in the larger of the two specimens known; snout obtuse, slightly
projecting beyond mandible; head wider than long; fingers and toes webbed; lacking nuptial pads (in males)
and a dermal flap along forearm; a weak supracloacal fold; spinose calcar present; skin not co-ossified to
forehead, median lingual process absent; supratympanic fold weak; dorsum brown, with a dark interorbital
bar; dark brown blotches on dorsum and flanks with blue blotches |
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