Lichuan fire-bellied toad
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Bombina lichuanensis | ||||||||||||
Ye & Fei , 1994 |
The Lichuan fire-bellied toad ( Bombina lichuanensis ) belongs to the " primitive " family Bombinatoridae and to the genus of toads within the order of the frogs . It was first described in 1994 from the Chinese Beiyang in the Hubei province and from the neighboring Sichuan . The species was originally regarded as a color variant of the giant toad ( Bombina maxima ), which it is very similar to, except for a different color of the abdomen. Molecular biological investigations support the classification as a separate species.
The species inhabits bogs at an altitude of around 1800 meters and needs pools for reproduction. Due to the small distribution area, the species is listed as endangered ( Vulnerable ) on the IUCN Red List .
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- ↑ Guohua Yu, Junxing Yang, Mingwang Zhang, Dingqi Rao: Phylogenetic and Systematic Study of the Genus Bombina (Amphibia: Anura: Bombinatoridae): New Insights from Molecular Data . In: Journal of Herpetology . tape 41 , no. 3 , 2007, p. 365-377 (English).
- ↑ Entry of the species in the IUCN Red List