First national record of Microhyla hmongorum Hoang, Nguyen, Phan, Pham, Ninh, Wang, Jiang, Ziegler and Nguyen, 2022 (Anura, Microhylidae, Microhyla) in China

To date, 10 species of the genus Microhyla have been recorded in China, of which six were distributed in Yunnan Province. Microhyla hmongorum Hoang, Nguyen, Phan, Pham, Ninh, Wang, Jiang, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2022 was also speculated to be distributed in Xishuangbana, Yunnan Province, China. However, there is no evidence of documentation of M. hmongorum.We report the first country record of Microhyla hmongorum, based on specimens collected from Yunnan border region. Morphologically, the specimen was consistent with the original descriptions of M. hmongorum. Phylogenetically, the sequences of the specimens from China clustered with the sequence of type specimens of M. hmongorum from Vietnam, with uncorrected pairwise distances of 0.9% at the 16S gene fragment analysed. Therefore, we report M. hmongorum as a new record species in China.

迄今为止，在中国记录了 Microhyla 属的 10 个物种，其中六个物种分布于云南省。Microhyla hmongorum（Hoang, Nguyen, Phan, Pham, Ninh, Wang, Jiang, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2022）亦被推测在云南省的西双版纳地区有分布。然而，尚无关于 M. hmongorum 的正式记录。本研究基于从云南省边境地区收集的标本，首次报道了 Microhyla hmongorum 在中国的国家记录。形态学上，该标本与 Microhyla hmongorum 的原始描述相符。系统发育学上，来自中国的标本序列与越南类型标本的 Microhyla hmongorum 序列聚为一群，16S 基因片段分析中未校正的成对距离为 0.9%。因此，本研究将 Microhyla hmongorum 作为一种新的记录物种引入中国。