taxonID	type	description	language	source
1A5B45F4AC3B50D489426873D63DE751.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The new species is assigned to the genus Leptobrachella on the basis of the following characters: small size, rounded fingertips, presence of an elevated inner palmar tubercle not continuous to the thumb, presence of supra-axillary, femoral and ventrolateral glands, vomerine teeth absent, tubercles on eyelids, and pale vertical bar present on anterior tip of snout (Dubois 1980, 1983; Ohler et al. 2011; Rowley and Cao 2009; Rowley et al. 2013). Leptobrachella bashaensis sp. nov. is distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following morphological characters: (1) small size (SVL 22.9 - 25.6 mm in six adult males and 27.1 mm in one adult female), (2) head longer than wide, (3) externally distinct tympanum, (4) dorsal skin slightly shagreened with small tubercles and irregular brown stripes, (5) distinct dark spots on the flank, (6) creamy-white chest and off-white belly with irregular black spots, (7) grey-pinkish to dark brownish-violet ventral skin of limbs with numerous whitish speckles, (8) distinct ventrolateral glands, forming a distinct white line, (9) finger webbing and fringes absent, (10) toe webbing rudimentary and lateral fringes narrow, (11) longitudinal ridges under toes and not interrupted at the articulations, (12) a distinctly bicolored iris, typically bright orange in upper half, fading to silver in lower half.	en	Lyu, Jing-Cai, Dai, Liang-Liang, Wei, Ping-Fan, He, Yan-Hong, Yuan, Zhi-Yong, Shi, Wen-Li, Zhou, Sheng-Lun, Ran, Si-Yu, Kuang, Zhong-Fan, Guo, Xuan, Wei, Gang, Yuan, Guo (2020): A new species of the genus Leptobrachella Smith, 1925 (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guizhou, China. ZooKeys 1008: 139-157, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.56412, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.56412
1A5B45F4AC3B50D489426873D63DE751.taxon	description	Description of the holotype. Adult male. SVL 24.0 mm; head slightly longer than wide (HDL / HDW = 1.10), rectangular in dorsal view (Fig. 3 A, B); snout rounded in both ventral view and lateral view, protruding slightly beyond lower jaw (Fig. 3 D); nostril oval, located closer to tip of snout than to eye; loreal region oblique; canthus rostralis distinct; eye large (EYE / HDL = 0.35), diameter slightly smaller than snout length (EYE / SNT = 0.88), notably protuberant in both dorsal and lateral view; pupil vertical; tympanum distinct, rounded, diameter smaller than that of eye (TMP / EYE = 0.60) (Fig. 3 C); vomerine teeth absent; vocal sac openings slit-like, located posterolateral on floor of mouth; tongue long and moderately wide, with a shallow notch at posterior tip; supratympanic ridge distinct, running from eye towards axillary with raised tubercles. Forelimb long and slender, fingers long and slender, without webbing and lateral fringes; relative length of fingers II <I <IV <III; tips of fingers rounded and slightly swollen; nuptial pad absent; subarticular tubercles absent in fingers; inner metacarpal tubercle large and rounded, separated from laterally compressed and much smaller outer metacarpal tubercle (Fig. 4 A, B). Hindlimb moderately long; tibia half of snout-vent length (TIB / SVL = 0.50); tibiotarsal articulation of adpressed limb reaching snout, well beyond anterior margin of eye, but not beyond snout tip; relative toe lengths I <II <V <III <IV; toe tips rounded and thickened; greatly reduced basal webbing present between all five toes; narrow lateral fringes present only on II and III toes (Fig. 4 C, D); subarticular tubercles hardly discernible under toes II and III; dorsal skin slightly rough with small tubercles and irregular pustules; ventral skin smooth; oval supra-axillary gland present at forelimb base on ventral surface of axillary region (Fig. 3 F); oval femoral glands distinct on posteroventral surface of thigh, closer to knee than to vent; ventrolateral glands forming a distinct line on flanks.	en	Lyu, Jing-Cai, Dai, Liang-Liang, Wei, Ping-Fan, He, Yan-Hong, Yuan, Zhi-Yong, Shi, Wen-Li, Zhou, Sheng-Lun, Ran, Si-Yu, Kuang, Zhong-Fan, Guo, Xuan, Wei, Gang, Yuan, Guo (2020): A new species of the genus Leptobrachella Smith, 1925 (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guizhou, China. ZooKeys 1008: 139-157, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.56412, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.56412
1A5B45F4AC3B50D489426873D63DE751.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet, " Leptobrachella bashaensis " / Basha Zhang Tu Chan (岜沙掌突蟾 in Chinese), refers to the location where the specimens were collected, Basha Nature Reserve of Guizhou Province, China.	en	Lyu, Jing-Cai, Dai, Liang-Liang, Wei, Ping-Fan, He, Yan-Hong, Yuan, Zhi-Yong, Shi, Wen-Li, Zhou, Sheng-Lun, Ran, Si-Yu, Kuang, Zhong-Fan, Guo, Xuan, Wei, Gang, Yuan, Guo (2020): A new species of the genus Leptobrachella Smith, 1925 (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guizhou, China. ZooKeys 1008: 139-157, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.56412, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.56412
