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ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Journal of Threatened Taxa 12 September 2019 (Online & Print) Vol. 11 | No. 11 | 14391–14470 PLATINUM 10.11609/jot.2019.11.11.14391-14470 OPEN www.threatenedtaxa.org ACCESS J Building TTevidence for conservaton globally Monograph ISSN 0974-7907 (Online); ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Publisher Host Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society Zoo Outreach Organizaton www.wild.zooreach.org www.zooreach.org No. 12, Thiruvannamalai Nagar, Saravanampat - Kalapat Road, Saravanampat, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India Ph: +91 9385339863 | www.threatenedtaxa.org Email: [email protected] EDITORS Typesetng Founder & Chief Editor Mr. Arul Jagadish, ZOO, Coimbatore, India Dr. Sanjay Molur Mrs. Radhika, ZOO, Coimbatore, India Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development (WILD) Society & Zoo Outreach Organizaton (ZOO), Mrs. Geetha, ZOO, Coimbatore India 12 Thiruvannamalai Nagar, Saravanampat, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India Mr. Ravindran, ZOO, Coimbatore India Deputy Chief Editor Fundraising/Communicatons Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar Mrs. Payal B. Molur, Coimbatore, India Indian Insttute of Science Educaton and Research (IISER), Pune, Maharashtra, India Editors/Reviewers Managing Editor Subject Editors 2016-2018 Mr. B. Ravichandran, WILD, Coimbatore, India Fungi Associate Editors Dr. B.A. Daniel, ZOO, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India Dr. B. Shivaraju, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Ms. Priyanka Iyer, ZOO, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India Prof. Richard Kiprono Mibey, Vice Chancellor, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya Dr. Mandar Paingankar, Department of Zoology, Government Science College Gadchiroli, Dr. R.K. Verma, Tropical Forest Research Insttute, Jabalpur, India Chamorshi Road, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra 442605, India Dr. V.B. Hosagoudar, Bilagi, Bagalkot, India Dr. Ulrike Streicher, Wildlife Veterinarian, Eugene, Oregon, USA Dr. Vatsavaya S. Raju, Kakatay University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India Dr. D.J. Bhat, Retd. Professor, Goa University, Goa, India Dr. G.P. Sinha, Botanical Survey of India, Allahabad, India Editorial Board Ms. Sally Walker Plants Founder/Secretary, ZOO, Coimbatore, India Dr. N.P. Balakrishnan, Ret. Joint Director, BSI, Coimbatore, India Dr. Robert Lacy Dr. Shonil Bhagwat, Open University and University of Oxford, UK Department of Conservaton Biology, Chicago Zoological Society (also known as the Brookfeld Prof. D.J. Bhat, Retd. Professor, Goa University, Goa, India Zoo), Brookfeld, Illinois 60513 USA; and Commitee on Evolutonary Biology, University of Dr. Ferdinando Boero, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy Chicago Dr. Dale R. Calder, Royal Ontaro Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dr. Cleofas Cervancia, Univ. of Philippines Los Baños College Laguna, Philippines Dr. Russel Mitermeier Dr. F.B. 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Sampath Kumar, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, West Bengal, India Dr. H.C. Nagaveni, Insttute of Wood Science and Technology, Bengaluru, India Dr. Ulrike Streicher, DVM Dr. K.S. Negi, NBPGR, Nainital District, Utarakhand, India Wildlife Veterinarian / Wildlife Management Consultant, 1185 East 39th Place, Eugene, OR Dr. A.J. Solomon Raju, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India 97405, USA Dr. Vijayasankar Raman, University of Mississippi, USA Dr. B. Ravi Prasad Rao, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantpur, India Stephen D. Nash Dr. K. Ravikumar, FRLHT, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Scientfc Illustrator, Conservaton Internatonal, Dept. of Anatomical Sciences, Health Prof. Satsh C. 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Noblick, Montgomery Botanical Center, Miami, USA Dr. John Fellowes Dr. K. Haridasan, FRLHT, Bengaluru, India Honorary Assistant Professor, The Kadoorie Insttute, 8/F, T.T. Tsui Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Invertebrates Dr. Philip S. Miller Dr. Deepak Apte, Bombay Natural Hisotry Society, Mumbai, India. Senior Program Ofcer, Conservaton Breeding Specialist Group (SSC/IUCN), 12101 Johnny Dr. R.K. Avasthi, Rohtak University, Haryana, India (Orthoptera) Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, MN 55124, USA Dr. D.B. Bastawade, Maharashtra, India (Araneae) Dr. Partha Pratm Bhatacharjee, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, India Prof. Dr. Mirco Solé Dr. Ferdinando Boero, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Vice-coordenador Dr. Kailash Chandra, Zoological Survey of India, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India (Lepidoptera) do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Rodovia Ilhéus/Itabuna, Km 16 (45662-000) Dr. Arthur Y.C. Chung, Sabah Forestry Department, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia Salobrinho, Ilhéus - Bahia - Brasil Dr. H.C. 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Kitching, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, UK contnued on the back inside cover Front cover—Green-spoted Torrent Frog Amolops viridimaculatus from Tengchong Gaoligongshan, Yunnan Province, China. © Jian-Huan Yang. Back cover—Gaoligong Hoolock Gibbon Hoolock tanxing from Gaoligongshan, Yunnan Province, China. © Zheng Bi. Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 12 September 2019 | 11(11): 14391–14401 I - T S G N N C R, ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) Y, C ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) PLATINUM 1 2 3 Bosco Pui Lok Chan , Zeng Bi & Shao-Zhong Duan OPEN ACCESS 1 Kadoorie Conservaton China, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden, Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, Hong Kong SAR, China. 2,3 Yunnan Gaoligongshan Natonal Nature Reserve (Tengchong Bureau), 157 Laifeng Avenue, Tengchong, Yunnan Province 679100, China. 1 [email protected] (corresponding author), 2 [email protected], 3 [email protected] Abstract: The Gaoligongshan Mountains in Yunnan Province, southwestern China, is one of the biologically richest areas on Earth. In 2014, we launched a four-year biodiversity survey in the Tengchong Secton of Gaoligongshan Natonal Nature Reserve and its immediate vicinity, aiming to update the current diversity, distributon, and status of the mammals, birds, herpetofauna, freshwater fshes, and buterfies on which we have expertse. Despite the intensity of earlier scientfc exploratons, our survey resulted in the discoveries of a new genus, a number of new species, genera and species new to China, Gaoligongshan, or Tengchong County, and updated the alttude limits for some species. Species richness of mammalian and avian fauna, the two groups most susceptble to habitat loss and huntng, remains remarkably high, but past impacts of huntng and habitat degradaton were in evidence. Our results clearly illustrate the immense conservaton value of this mountain range and the necessity for more in-depth, focused biodiversity feld surveys. This monograph summarizes our fndings, and this chapter gives an overview of the geography, climate, vegetaton, and ecology of Tengchong, a history of earlier and present
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    Evolutionary History of the Asian Horned Frogs (Megophryinae): Integrative Approaches to Timetree Dating in the Absence of a Fossil Record Stephen Mahony,*,1,2 Nicole M. Foley,1 S.D. Biju,2 and Emma C. Teeling*,1 1School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland 2Systematics Lab, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, India *Corresponding authors: E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]. Associate editor: Beth Shapiro Abstract Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article-abstract/34/3/744/2919384 by guest on 06 August 2019 Molecular dating studies typically need fossils to calibrate the analyses. Unfortunately, the fossil record is extremely poor or presently nonexistent for many species groups, rendering such dating analysis difficult. One such group is the Asian horned frogs (Megophryinae). Sampling all generic nomina, we combined a novel 5 kb dataset composed of four nuclear and three mitochondrial gene fragments to produce a robust phylogeny, with an extensive external morpho- logical study to produce a working taxonomy for the group. Expanding the molecular dataset to include out-groups of fossil-represented ancestral anuran families, we compared the priorless RelTime dating method with the widely used prior-based Bayesian timetree method, MCMCtree, utilizing a novel combination of fossil priors for anuran phylogenetic dating. The phylogeny was then subjected to ancestral phylogeographic analyses, and dating estimates were compared with likely biogeographic vicariant events. Phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that previously proposed systematic hypotheses were incorrect due to the paraphyly of genera. Molecular phylogenetic, morphological, and timetree results support the recognition of Megophryinae as a single genus, Megophrys, with a subgenus level classification.
  • Myanmar National Red List Training and Assessment Workshop Forest Research Institute, Yezin, Naypyitaw 23-27 July 2018

    Myanmar National Red List Training and Assessment Workshop Forest Research Institute, Yezin, Naypyitaw 23-27 July 2018

    Myanmar National Red List Training and Assessment Workshop Forest Research Institute, Yezin, Naypyitaw 23-27 July 2018 1 Background The Myanmar National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2015-2020 includes Target 12.3 “By 2020, a National Red List of selected taxa has been produced” and Actions 12.3.1 “Conduct Red List assessments for key taxa, with a particular focus on endemic species” and 12.3.2 “Hold training workshops to build capacity on application of the Red List categories and criteria”. In July 2017, in partnership with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation’s (MONREC’s) Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division (NWCD), WCS Myanmar, and WWF Myanmar, IUCN organized a 5-day Red List Assessor training workshop at the Forest Research Institute (FRI), Yezin, near Naypyitaw. 30 participants attended, representing organizations including the Myanmar Forest Department, WCS, WWF, FFI, Instituto Oikos, Myanmar Floriculturalist Association, Taunggyi University, Yangon University, Mandalay University, and Myitkyinar University. In addition to building national capacity in use of the Red List Categories and Criteria, this event was intended to initiate the process of developing a Myanmar National Red List. It was followed by the formal establishment of five National Red List Working Groups – focusing on mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, plants, and aquatic species, approved by the MONREC Minister. In July 2018, IUCN continued to support the development of a Myanmar National Red List by facilitating a second Red List workshop at FRI, Naypyitaw, again in partnership with NWCD, WCS Myanmar, and WWF Myanmar. This event consisted of three days of Red List Assessor training for all members of the Myanmar National Red List Working Groups (23-25 July), followed by two days of conducting national-level assessments of reptile species with the Myanmar National Red List Reptiles and Amphibians Working Group (26-27 July).