Scutiger pingwuensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Megophryidae
- Genus
- Scutiger
- Species
- Scutiger pingwuensis
- Scientific Name
- Scutiger pingwuensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Scutiger pingwuensis
Scutiger pingwuensis is a species of toad in the family Megophryidae known commonly as the Pingwu lazy toad and the Pingwu alpine toad. It is endemic to Pingwu County in Sichuan, China. It lives near villages at about 2200 meters in elevation. Its habitat includes streams bordered by dense shrubs. It lays eggs under rocks in the streams.
It is a locally common species, but its range is limited, it is known from only five locations, and its population is believed to be declining. It is threatened by habitat degradation and destruction from agriculture and development as human settlement grows in the area.
Phylogenetic analyses of the genus indicate that this toad is sister species to Scutiger chintingensis.
...Scutiger pingwuensis in languages:
- Czech
- horalka šípová
- English
- Pingwu lazy toad
- English
- Pingwu alpine toad
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Scutiger adungensis
- Scutiger bangdaensis
- Scutiger bhutanensis
- Scutiger biluoensis
- Scutiger boulengeri
- Scutiger brevipes
- Scutiger chintingensis
- Scutiger ghunsa
- Scutiger glandulatus
- Scutiger gongshanensis
- Scutiger jiulongensis
- Scutiger liupanensis
- Scutiger maculatus
- Scutiger mammatus
- Scutiger meiliensis
- Scutiger muliensis
- Scutiger nepalensis
- Scutiger ningshanensis
- Scutiger nyingchiensis
- Scutiger occidentalis
- Scutiger pingwuensis
- Scutiger sikimmensis
- Scutiger spinosus
- Scutiger tengchongensis
- Scutiger tuberculatus
- Scutiger wanglangensis
- Scutiger wuguanfui