First record of Rhacophorus verrucopus Huang, 1983 from Myanmar

First record of Rhacophorus verrucopus Huang, 1983 from Myanmar

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We report the first country record of Rhacophorus verrucopus Huang, 1983 from Myanmar, based jazz hands bold loropetalum on one specimen collected from Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, Sagaing Division.Morphologically, the specimen shows good agreement with the original description of R.verrucopus and phylogenetically, it is clustered with the specimen of R.verrucopus from Medog, Tibet, China with strong support.This thuja golden spire is also the first record of R.

verrucopus from outside of China.