Microhylidae) from Sabah, Malaysia [Composition and Distribution of Frogs in Crocker Range Park, Sabah, Malaysia]

Abstract

Background: We monitor five locations within Crocker Range Park, one of the protected forests administered by Sabah Parks in the part of Malaysia de Borneo. The selected sites were in several elevations: lowland sites at 260 my 499 m ASL; Montano sites at 1,216 m, 1,260 my 1,477 m ASL found forty species in this study. New discoveries were also found during the course of our three -year survey (October 2003 to October 2006).

New information: The discoveries include among others, Sabah’s endemic from Meristogenys, two new records for Sabah: Sarawakiphrys Dringi (Inger, Stuebing and Tan, 1995), and Pelophryne Rhopophilia Inger and Stuebing, 1996, as well as a new species, Kalophrynus minutus sp. nov.described here. These findings provide evidence of many unknown species that they still expect to be discovered. These discoveries are also significantly added to our understanding of the distribution of frog species in Borneo as a whole, which demonstrates that the species were previously considered geographically restricted in reality have much larger and more extensive distributions within Borneo.

Keywords: frogs, KalophrynusDistribution, tropical forest, protected, crocker Range, Borneo

Coloration and dorsolateral pattern of the type of type sample (SP26180) Kalophrynus minutus sp. nov. In life. A large, round and black ocelo is visible in the inguinal region; BC shows a thick x -shaped pattern on the shoulders and a dorsolateral row of white tubers with black edges. Photographs: Paul Imbun.

Kalophrynus minutus I imbun, I was Lian, Lakim and Majuakim, sp. nov.

Diagnosis: A small kind of Kalophrynusadults <25 mm; Fourth finger with a single subarticular tuber, free portion of the fourth finger less than the length of the third finger terminal; fifth finger shorter than the third; A great black inguinal ocelo.

Etymology: The specific epithet is taken from the Latin adjective minute for littleIn reference to the new species that has the smaller body size in the genus Kalophrynus.

Paul Imbun, so was Lian, Maklarin Lakim and Luiza Majuakim. 2025. Composition and distribution of frogs in crocker Range Park, Sabah, Malasia, with a description of a new Kalophrynus (Anura, microhylidae) species. Biodiversity data magazine. 13: E157470. DOI: DOI.ORG/10.3897/BDJ.13.E157470