TABLE 4 in A new Oreolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam

TABLE 4. Selected diagnostic characters for all species in the genus Oreolalax. Grey shading indicates non-overlapping characters when compared to Oreolalax adelphos sp. nov. Refereneces:1. Fei & Huang 1983; 2. Ohler & Dubois 1992; 3. Yang & Rao 2008; 4. Fei et al. 2012; 5. Nguyen et al. 2013; 6. Fei & Ye, 2016; 7. Hou et al. 2020; 8. Tapley et al. 2023.
SpeciesSVL adult male (mm)SVL adult femaleTympanum visible?Vocal sacInterdigital toe webbingBelly patternSkin texture on bellyTubercles on dorsumDark bars on hindlimbsDark triangular marking between eyesRefOreolalax adelphos sp. nov.38.0 (N =1)46.2 (N =1)NoAbsentBasalMottledSmoothRounded, evenly spaced, similar sized tuberclesPresentAbsentThis studyO. chuanbeiensis46.7–56.055.0–59.0NoAbsent1/3 webbedImmaculateSmoothCovered in spiny tuberclesPresentAbsent5, 6,(N =13)(N =3)7O. granulosus48.6–61.047.4–60.0NoAbsent1/2 – 2/3ImmaculateSmoothCovered in small spinyPresentAbsent5, 6(N =?)(N =?)webbedor with smalltuberclesspotsO. jingdongensis49.3–60.348.7–56.5NoAbsent1/3 webbedGrey spotsSmoothCovered in large tubercles with thick spinesPresentPresent3, 5,(N =?)(N =?)6O. liangbeiensis47.5–56.356.0–65.7NoAbsent1/3 webbedImmaculateSmooth orCovered in large and small spiny tuberclesPresetAbsent5, 6(N =20)(N =8)granularO. lichuanensis52.9–64.857.3–62.2NoAbsentBasalDark flecksSmoothLarge and small spineless tuberclesNotAbsent4, 6(N =20)(N =4)reportedO. longmenmontis51.6–64.2NotNoBasalMarbledSmoothLarge, scattered tuberclesPresentPresent7(N =3)reportedO. major59.2–68.765.0–70.0NoAbsent1/3 webbedDark spotsSmoothCovered in large and small tubercles with black spinesPresentAbsent5, 6(N =20)(N =2)O. multipunctatus47.4–49.8NotNoAbsentBasalWith few orNotCovered in tuberclesIndistinctPresent5, 6(N =4)reportedwithout spotsreportedO. nanjiangensis52.6–60.053.3–58.2NoAbsentBasalImmaculateSmoothRough with small tuberclesNotAbsent6, 7(N =10)(N =8)reportedO. omeimontis49.5–58.451.2–56.1NoPresentBasalCloudy spotsSmoothRound or small elliptic spiny tuberclesPresentPresent4, 5,(N =15)(N =3)6O. pingii43.4–51.046.8–54.4NoAbsentBasalImmaculateSmoothVery small tuberclesPresentAbsent5, 6(N =20)(N =20)O. popei60.0–69.051.7–67.0NoAbsentBasal orSmall spotsSmoothLarge tuberclesPresentAbsent5, 6(N =20)(N =10)absentO. puxiongensis41.3–45.343.0–50.0NoAbsentAbsentNot clearlyGranularDense tubercles forming long spiny ridgesNotPresent4, 5,(N =20)(N =10)reportedreported6O. rhodostigmatus57.5–73.562.4–70.6YesAbsentBasalSome marblingSmoothSmall spiny tuberclesNotAbsent6(N =7)(N =2)reportedO. rugosus44.3–52.645.0–54.0NoAbsent1/4 webbedMottledSmoothCovered in large spiny tuberclesNotAbsent3, 4,(N =10)(N =10)reported5, 6O. schmidti40.0–47.048.0–54.0NoAbsentAbsentImmaculateSmoothLarge and small spiney tuberclesIndistinctPresent5,6(N =30)(N =3)O. sterlingae34.3–41.339.5–46.3NoAbsentBasalMarbledSmoothHead and body covered in irregular shaped wartsPresentAbsent5, 8,(N=7)(N=11)ThisstudyO. weigoldi58.2 (N =1)NotNoAbsentNotMarblingGranularRough with spiny tuberclesPresentNot recorded2, 5reportedrecordedaround edgesO. xiangchengensis46.7–48.747.3–61.4NoAbsentFullyImmaculateSmoothCovered in very small spiny tuberclesAbsentAbsent1, 6,(N =2)(N =10)webbedThisstudy
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