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Download Download PLATINUM The Journal of Threatened Taxa (JoTT) is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles online OPEN ACCESS every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of artcles in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Short Communication New record of Blue-eyed Eastern Spadefoot Toad Leptobrachium bompu (Amphibia: Megophryidae) from Sarpang District in Bhutan Jigme Tenzin & Jigme Tshelthrim Wangyal 26 February 2019 | Vol. 11 | No. 3 | Pages: 13385–13389 DOI: 10.11609/jot.4134.11.3.13385-13389 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies, and Guidelines visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. The journal, the publisher, the host, and the part- Publisher & Host ners are not responsible for the accuracy of the politcal boundaries shown in the maps by the authors. Partner Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 February 2019 | 11(3): 13385–13389 New record of Blue-eyed Eastern Spadefoot Toad Leptobrachium bompu (Amphibia: Megophryidae) from Sarpang District in Bhutan ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) Short Communication Short ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Jigme Tenzin 1 & Jigme Tshelthrim Wangyal 2 PLATINUM 1 Divisional Forest Ofce, Sarpang, Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS), Ministry of Agriculture & Forests, OPEN ACCESS Sarpang 31002, Bhutan. 2 Jigme Khesar Strict Nature Reserve, Haa 15001, Bhutan. 1 [email protected] (corresponding author), 2 [email protected] Abstract: This study provides the frst report of Leptobrachium bompu Leptobrachium bompu was described by Sondhi Sondhi & Ohler, 2011 from Bhutan. The species was recorded from & Ohler (2011) from Eagle-nest Wildlife Sanctuary Simkhar watershed in Jigmecholing under Sarpang District, at an elevaton of 1,610m. Simkhar Stream is small and perennial, shaded in Arunachal Pradesh, India. The distributon of the and swampy, with a few moss-laden fat stones along the course, species was further extended to Talle Village Wildlife and is polluton-free and slow-fowing. The current report extends the distributon record of L. bompu towards the east and will help in Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh (Saikia et al. 2017) and understanding the range and conservaton status of the species. Upper Medog in Tibet, China (Liang et al. 2017). This paper presents the frst report of the species in Bhutan Keywords: Habitat, Jigmecholing, liter frogs, Megophryids, morphometric measurements, Simkhar watershed. along with informaton on its morphometry and habitat. Materials and Methods Study area Megophryids are known as liter frogs and are Simkhar watershed in Jigmecholing under Sarpang natve to warm southeastern Asian countries from District is located within 27.031–27.054 0N & 90.495– the Himalayan foothills to Indonesia and Greater 90.497 0E at an elevaton ranging from 1,160–2,646 m Sunda Islands in maritme southeastern Asia up to (Fig. 1). Geographically, Simkhar watershed falls within the Philippines (Zweifel 1998). There are currently biological corridor no. 3, which covers the corridor 230 species in fve genera assigned to Megophryidae of Jigme Singye Wangchuck Natonal Park (JSWNP) Bonaparte, 1850 (Frost 2019) in the world, out of which in the north and Royal Manas Natonal Park (RMNP) seven species are reported from Bhutan (Wangyal 2014). towards the east, and runs down to Pibsoo Wildlife The Eastern Spadefoot Toad genus Leptobrachium was Sanctuary in southern Bhutan (Tenzin & Dhendup described by Tschudi (1838) and is known to consist of 2017; Tenzin et al. 2018). Floristcally, the study area 36 species (Frost 2019). comprises subtropical broad-leaved forests at the DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4134.11.3.13385-13389 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC11AF19-2649-4B9E-89D1-C62AA5F23DD4 Editor: Neelesh Dahanukar, Indian Insttute of Science Educaton and Research (IISER), Pune, India Date of publicaton: 26 February 2019 (online & print) Manuscript details: #4134 | Received 15 March 2018 | Final received 07 February 2019 | Finally accepted 12 February 2019 Citaton: Tenzin, J. & J.T. Wangyal (2019). New record of Blue-eyed Eastern Spadefoot Toad Leptobrachium bompu (Amphibia: Megophryidae) from Sarpang District in Bhutan. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(3): 13385–13389; htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4134.11.3.13385-13389 Copyright: © Tenzin & Wangyal 2019. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Funding: Ruford Small Grant Foundaton, UK [grant no. is 15631-1]. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to Ruford Small Grant Foundaton based in UK for funding conservaton initatve of Nanorana leibigii in Simkhar River, Jigmecholing, under Sarpang District, Bhutan. Dr. L. Scot Mills, Professor at Montana University, USA; Dr. D.B. Gurung, Professor at the College of Natural Resources (CNR), RUB, and Mr. Sangay Wangchuk, UWICER, Bumthang, Bhutan are immensely acknowledged for refereeing above studies. The author is also thankful to the community of Simkhar Village for their resourceful support during the feld survey, and to the reviewers for their help in manuscript refnement. 13385 Record of Leptobrachium bompu from Bhutan Tenzin & Wangyal India Bangladesh Figure 1. Spatal locaton of Leptobrachium bompu from Pakhola in Sarpang District, Bhutan. lower alttudes (1,000–2,000 m) to warm temperate deposited in the museum collecton of the Laboratory forests at the upper alttudes (2,000–2,500 m), which of the College of Natural Resources (CNR), Lobesa, in support diverse biologic fauna (Oshawa 1987). Besides Punakha District, Bhutan. its rich biodiversity, Simkhar River has seven major Abbreviatons: SVL - snout vent length; EL - eye tributaries with more than 10 secondary tributaries that length; EN - anterior eye corner to nostril distance; HL drain to the Mouchu River basin and fnally reach the - head length; HW - head width; IBE - distance between Brahmaputra in Assam. posterior eye corners; IFE - distance between anterior eye corners; IN - internarial distance; IUE - maximum Morphometric measurements of specimens distance between upper eyelids; MBE - posterior All morphometric measurements were taken with a mandible corner to posterior eye corner distance; MFE digital calliper under a microscope. All the morphometric - distance from posterior mandible corner to anterior measurements used by Sondhi & Ohler (2011) based on eye corner; MN - distance from posterior corner of one male specimen, Liang et al. (2017) collected from mandible to nostril; NS - snout tp-nostril distance; SL seven specimens, and one male specimen of Saikia et al. - snout length; UEW - maximum width of the upper (2017) were taken for comparison. Habitat descripton eyelid; FLL - forelimb length between elbow to base of was recorded. Abbreviatons for morphometric outer palmer tubercle; HAL - hand length from base of measurements taken are provided in Table 1. outer palmer tubercle to the tp of the third fnger; TFL - Specimen was collected following standard protocol length of third fnger (distal part of artculaton between where specimen was euthanized using 0.001% clove oil proximal phalanges and metacarpal bone of the third and treated in 10% formalin for short-tme preservaton fnger); Fw3 - width of third fnger at mid length; FFTF afer taking photographs when alive (Gurung et al. - distance from maximum incurvaton of web between 2012; Tenzin & Dhendup 2017). The specimens were fourth and ffh toe to tp of fourth toe; FL - femur length 13386 Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 February 2019 | 11(3): 13385–13389 Record of Leptobrachium bompu from Bhutan Tenzin & Wangyal from vent to knee; FOL - Foot length from base of inner Leptobrachium (Frost 2016) (Image 1). The new metatarsal tubercle to the tp of the fourth toe; FTL - discovery of L. bompu in Upper Medog moved the fourth toe length (between distal part to the artculaton northern limit to northern lattude 29.2540N, 338km between proximal phalange and metatarsal bone of the (crow-fy distance) from Bompu. A solitary L. bompu fourth toe); IMT - length of inner metatarsal tubercle; ITL was spoted coincidentally during the feld survey of - length of the inner toe; MTFF - distance between distal Nanorana leibigii (Gunther, 1864) at Pakhola (27.0340N edge of metatarsal tubercle to maximum incurvaton of & 90.4940E) in Jigmecholing under Sarpang District on the web between fourth and ffh toe; TFOL - length of 26 April 2015, at an alttude of 1,610m. With
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