''Oreolalax weigoldi'', also known as Weigold's lazy toad or Weigold's toothed toad, is a species of
amphibian in the family
Megophryidae
Megophryidae, commonly known as goose frogs, is a large family of frogs native to the warm southeast of Asia, from the Himalayan foothills eastwards, south to Indonesia and the Greater Sunda Islands in Maritime Southeast Asia, and extending to th ...
. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to
Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
,
China. It is only known from its
type locality, Washan in southern Sichuan;
[ there are, however, many places with this name in Sichuan.][
]
Description
The single male specimen (holotype
A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of sever ...
) was in snout-vent length.
References
weigoldi
Frogs of China
Endemic fauna of Sichuan
Amphibians described in 1924
Taxa named by Theodor Vogt
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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