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2022 , Vol. 47 >Issue 4: 275 - 292

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.2022401

Original Article

Description of a new species of the genus Rana (Anura: Ranidae) from western Guizhou, China, integrating morphological and molecular genetic data

  • Shasha Yan ,
  • Qingqing He ,
  • Tao Luo ,
  • Cheng Xu ,
  • Huaiqing Deng ,
  • Ning Xiao ,
  • Jiang Zhou
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  • 1School of Karst Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, China 2School of Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, China 3Guiyang Nursing Vocational College, Guiyang 550003, China

Online published: 2022-10-24

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This work was supported by the programs of the Guizhou Province Top Discipline Construction Program Project (Qianjiao Keyan Fa [2019]125), the Postgraduate Education Innovation Programme of Guizhou Province (Qianjiaohe YJSKYJJ [2021]091), the Strategic Priority Research Program B of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (XDB 31000000), the National Animal Collection Resource Center, China (2005DKA21402), the Application of Amphibian Natural Antioxidant Peptides as Cosmetic Raw Material Antioxidants (QKZYD [2020]4002

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Abstract

The diversity of the brown frog genus Rana may be underestimated as the high similarity of morphological characters. In this study, a new species of Rana from Guizhou Province, China is described, namely Rana zhijinensis Luo, Xiao & Zhou, sp. nov. Molecular phylogenetic analyses clustered the new species into the R. japonica group of Rana and significant morphological characters can be distinguished from the 11 recognized species of the R. japonica group. This description increases the number of recognized Rana to 57 species and the R. japonica group to 12 species, and increases our knowledge of the diversity of the genus Rana.

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Shasha Yan , Qingqing He , Tao Luo , Cheng Xu , Huaiqing Deng , Ning Xiao , Jiang Zhou . Description of a new species of the genus Rana (Anura: Ranidae) from western Guizhou, China, integrating morphological and molecular genetic data[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2022 , 47(4) : 275 -292 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.2022401

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