AmphibiaWeb - Quasipaa taoi


Quasipaa taoi Pham, Hoang, Phan, Nguyen & Ziegler, 2022 English name: Tao's Spiny Frog; Vietnamese name: Ếch gai sần tạo	family: Dicroglossidae subfamily: Dicroglossinae genus: Quasipaa
Species Description: Pham CT, Hoang CV, Phan TQ, Nguyen TQ, Ziegler T. 2022. Hidden in the jungle of Vietnam: a new species of Quasipaa (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae) from Ngoc Linh Mountain. ZooKeys 1124: 23–42.
Etymology: Quasipaa taoi is named after Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tao Thien Nguyen of the Institute of Genome Research, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, a dear friend and peer of C. T. Pham, C. V. Hoang, T. Q. Phan, T. Q. Nguyen, and T. Ziegler. Dr. Nguyen made myriad contributions to the study of the amphibians of Vietnam (Pham et al. 2022).

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