Kamimuria magnimacula Du 2005
Kamimuria magnimacula Du, 2005 Kamimuria magnimacula Du, 2005 in Du & Wang, 2005: 53, 57. Stark & Sivec, 2013: 117. Yang & Li, 2018: 30. Kamimuri hunanensis Li & Li, 2022: 119. syn. nov. Materials Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Wang Zhijie; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; county: Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous; locality: Da Shahe National Nature Reserve; Event: year: 2004; month: 8; day: 22; Record Level: language: en Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Wang Zhijie; individualCount: 2; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; county: Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous; locality: Da Shahe National Nature Reserve; Event: year: 2004; month: 8; day: 22 Distribution China (Guizhou, Hunan) Taxon discussion It has been twenty years since the last report of K. magnimacula from Guizhou Province, currently, only hand-drawn illustrations of this species are available. To facilitate future identification efforts, we conducted a detailed examination of the type materials of K. magnimacula. However, due to its preservation in alcohol for twenty years, the sclerotised spot on the penis tube is no longer clearly visible (Fig. 4). During this process, we found that the description and illustrations of K. hunanensis (see fig. 8 in Li and Li (2022)) from Hunan Province are highly consistent with those of K. magnimacula (Figs 3, 4). Additionally, Guizhou Province borders Hunan Province and the type localities of these two species are relatively close, being only about 280 kilometres apart (Fig. 8). Therefore, we consider K. hunanensis as a synonym of K. magnimacula in this paper.
Institutions
- Yangzhou University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2025-05-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15496825
- Primary Topic
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Type
- article
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