Raorchestes cangyuanensis, Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu, Murphy, and Che, 2019

Lalronunga, Samuel & Lalhmingliani, Esther, 2021, A new country record of Raorchestes cangyuanensis Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu Murphy & Che 2019 and additional record of Kurixalus yangi Yu, Hui, Rao & Yang 2018 (Anura: Rhacophoridae: Rhacophorinae) from India, Zootaxa 4974 (2), pp. 383-390 : 384

Raorchestes cangyuanensis

Individuals of Raorchestes cangyuanensis ( Figure 1B ) were collected from forested area in Hmuifang ( MZUHC 324 , MZUHC 325 ) and near human settlements in Aizawl city ( MZUHC 331 ). The samples from Mizoram, India formed a clade with the type specimens of R. cangyuanensis in the ML tree ( Figure 1C ) with a genetic distance of only 0.6% ( Supplementary table 3), and represents the first record of this species in India. Sequences submitted to GenBank as R. longchuanensis from Longchuan, China (accession number GQ 285675 ); Satchari National Park , Bangladesh (accession numbers MH699074 , MN193412 , MN193413 , MN193414 ) and northeast India (location not specified, accession number MH 423740 ) also formed a clade with the type specimens of R. cangyuanensis and the newly generated sequences from Mizoram, India .

Figures

FIGURE 1. A) Map showing the locality records of Raorchestes cangyuanensis based on published literatures and present study. B) In-situ photo of amplexing pair of Raorchestes cangyuanensis from Tlangnuam, Aizawl, Mizoram (MZUHC 331, ♂ and MZUHC 332, ♀. C) Maximum-likelihood tree of 16S rRNA dataset of 24 sequences. Letter in blue indicates the types of R. cangyuanensis and letters in red indicates sequences of samples previously misidentified as R. longchuanensis.