A NEW TREE FROG OF THE GENUS KURIXALUS YE, FEI & DUBOIS, 1999 (AMPHIBIA: RHACOPHORIDAE) FROM WEST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA

Mediyansyah Mediyansyah (PT Hatfield Indonesia (Environmental Specialist), LIPI Building)
Amir Hamidy (Zoology Division (Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense), Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI))
Misbahul Munir
Masafumi Matsui (Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan)

TREUBIA
Vol 46 (2019): Vol. 46, December 2019

Kurixalus absconditus sp. nov., a new species of tree frog of the genus Kurixalus, described from West Kalimantan on the basis of molecular phylogenetic and morphological evidence. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of following morphological characters: having smaller body size, more prominent of mandibular symphysis, skin smooth on throat, vomerine odontophores two oblique series touching anterior corner of choanae and widely separated, vomerine teeth thick, buccal cavity narrow and deep, choanae with teardrop shaped, single vocal slit, weakly crenulated dermal fringe on fore- and hindlimbs.