A New Species Distribution Record of Amolops in China—Amolops compotrix

In August and October 2023, two adult specimens(Amolops, Ranidae, Anura ) were collected from Bajiao Village, Yaoshan Township, Hekou Yao Autonomous County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan rovince. The dorsal skin is smooth, grainy skin on the back of the thighs, and an overall green color with weak glandular. There is a narrow gold stripe on edge of canthus from tip of snout along margin of upper eyelid continuing above edge of dorsolateral fold, and a white lip stripe from tip of snout to posterior of arm insertion. The toes are enlarged and have sucking discs at the fingertips. All toes are fully webbed except the fourth toe which reaches the third joint. The subarticular tubercles are large and round, and the outer sides of the first and fifth toes have a fringe. It was found that the morphological characteristics of the collected specimens were basically consistent with those of Amolops compotrix found in Gammon Province, Vietnam. The results of Bayesian phylogenetic tree analysis based on COI gene showed that the specimens in this study were clustered with A.compotrix, with a genetic distance of 2%. Therefore, the specimen collected was identified as A.compotrix, a new record species of Amolops sinensis, and the new Chinese name was "红河湍蛙".