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Two New Species of Liuixalus (Rhacophoridae, Anura): Evidence from Morphological and Molecular Analyses.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Qin Shaobo, Mo Yunming, Jiang Ke, Cai Bo, Xie Feng, Jiang Jianping, Murphy Robert W, Li Jia-Tang, Wang Yuezhao
Abstract excerpt
Due to small body sizes, superficial similarities in morphologies, and obscure activity behaviors, the phylogeny and taxonomy of species in the genus Liuixalus were very troublesome. Some species might comprise a complex of cryptic species. To investigate the species of group, we constructed the matrilineal genealogy of the genus using 16s rRNA mitochondrial DNA sequences. Analyses recovered six well supported...
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