''Leptobrachella oshanensis'', also known as the Oshan metacarpal-tubercled toad or pigmy crawl frog, is a frog species in the family Megophryidae. It is endemic to southern–central

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

( Guizhou, Hubei,

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

, and Sichuan provinces as well as the municipality of

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

). Its type locality is Mount Emei (). The same mountain has given the species its name. It has also been reported from Thailand and Laos but these are now considered to represent ''

Leptobrachella minimus ''Leptobrachella'' is a genus of frogs in the family Megophryidae. Members of Leptobrachella are found throughout Asia including on Borneo and the Natuna Islands. They are sometimes referred to as Borneo frogs, slender-armed frogs, or dwarf lit ...

''. ''Leptobrachella oshanensis'' occurs in hill streams as well as the surrounding broadleaf and mixed forests at elevations of

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...

. It is not considered threatened by the

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. ''Leptobrachella oshanensis'' is a small frog: males grow to a snout-vent length of about and females to .

References

oshanensis Frogs of China Endemic fauna of China Amphibians described in 1950 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Megophryidae-stub