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Introduction
Currently work on taxonomy and systematics of some groups of Chinese herpetological fauna. Two major groups are Megophryidae and Elapidae.
My interest also goes to relationships between human activities and amphibians. How endemic amphibians survive under cilmate change and how to find a balance between rural sustainable economy and amphibian species diversity conservation.
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September 2017 - September 2023
Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Position
- PhD Student
September 2013 - June 2016
Education
September 2017 - September 2023
Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Field of study
- Zoology
September 2017 - September 2023
September 2013 - June 2016
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Multiple disciplines can help to discover cryptic species and resolve taxonomic confusions. The Asian horned toad genus Megophrys sensu lato as a diverse group was proposed to contain dozens of cryptic species. Based on molecular phylogenetics, morphology, osteology, and bioacoustics data, the species profiles of Megophrys toads in the eastern corn...
Kraits of the genus Bungarus Daudin 1803 are widely known venomous snakes distributed from Iran to China and Indonesia. Here, we use a combination of mitochondrial DNA sequence data and morphological data to describe a new species from Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China: Bungarus suzhenae sp. nov . Phylogenetically, this species forms a monop...
A new species of the Asian leaf litter toad genus Leptobrachella is described from Sichuan Province, China. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences clustered the new species as an independent clade nested into L. oshanensis species group. The new species could be distinguished from its congeners by a combin...
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Cobras (Naja Laurenti, 1768) are a group of well-known highly venomous snakes, which cause numerous cases of snakebites every year, especially in South Asia and Southern China. Taxonomic framework is essential for the medical treatment of snake bites and accurate antivenin development. However, the taxonomy of Asian cobras is still p...
In this study, a new species named Scutiger luozhaensis sp. nov. is described from Luozha, southern Tibet, China. Genetic analysis based on two mitochondrial genes 16S rRNA and COI and the nuclear gene RAG1 revealed that the new species belongs to an independent phylogenetic clade close to S. gongshanensis and S. nyingchiensis and shares no RAG1 ha...
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The odd-scaled snake genus Achalinus, which is widely distributed in northern Vietnam, China and Japan, is a poorly-known group of snakes. Numerous species within this genus have been described based on few specimens or only a single type specimen. Achalinus hunanensis Ma, Shi, Xiang, Shu & Jiang, 2023 was described based on only two mal...
A new species of Asian horned toad, Boulenophrys, is described from Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, China. The species is a phylogenetically sister to B. yunkaiensis, based on 16S rRNA and COI genes. The new species differs from its congeners, possessing the following combination of characters: (1) moderate body size: SVL 37.6–40.2 mm (38.9 ± 1.3, n...
[Objectives] Amolops pallasitatus is only recorded in Chentang Town, Dingjie County, Xizang Autonomous Region with two specimens reported since published. This study presents the first record of this species in Luozha County, Xizang Autonomous Region. [Methods] The specimen newly reported in this research was identified based on morphological chara...
A new Gekko (subgenus Japonigekko) species, Gekko alpinussp. nov., is described from the Jinsha River Basin in southwestern China, between the border of Mangkang County, Xizang Autonomous Region and Batang County, Sichuan Province, according to the integrative taxonomic results combining molecular data and morphological characters obtained from the...
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More than 350 species (32 species groups) of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827, are reported currently, with a wide distribution from Himalaya, South Asia, Southeast Asia, to Melanesia. Cyrtodactylus tibetanus group, as the earliest Cyrtodactylus diverging clade, are endemic to the Yarlung–Tsangpo River Basin of Tibetan Plateau, only containi...
The reed snakes of the genus Calamaria Boie, 1827 are one of the largest groups of Asian snakes, distributed from northeast India to the Maluku Islands of east Indonesia. Recent research on the genus in China has revealed that the species diversity of the group was underestimated. In this study, morphological comparisons and mitochondrial DNA analy...
The distribution of species is not random in space. At the finest‐resolution spatial scale, that is, field sampling locations, distributional aggregation level of different species would be determined by various factors, for example spatial autocorrelation or environmental filtering. However, few studies have quantitatively measured the importance...
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Biodiversity conservation under global climate change is a global challenge. Many wildlife species are altering their distributions to adapt to the changes in their living environments caused by climate change. Amphibians are the most vulnerable group among vertebrates in the context of global climate change, and salamanders are one...
Gut microbiota are significant to the host’s nutrition and provide a flexible way for the host to adapt to extreme environments. However, whether gut microbiota help the host to colonize caves, a resource-limited environment, remains unknown. The nonobligate cave frog Oreolalax rhodostigmatus completes its metamorphosis within caves for 3–5 years b...
摘要：云开脊蛇（Achalinus yunkaiensis）之前仅在广东和广西有分布报道。本文基于形态比较及线粒体COI 基因序列分子系统关系分析结果，确定采集于湖南省新宁县的 1 号雌性脊蛇标本（CIB 119041）为云开脊蛇，为湖南省新记录种。该标本鼻间鳞沟约等于前额鳞沟，上颔齿 24 枚；背鳞通身 23 行，腹鳞 150 枚，尾下鳞 55 枚；尾长与体长之比为0.203。至此共有 4 种脊蛇分布于湖南省。此外，本文还报道了棕脊蛇（A. rufescens）1 号雄性地模标本（CIB 119042），该标本鼻间鳞沟长于前额鳞沟；背鳞通身 23 行，腹鳞 153 枚，尾下鳞 62 枚；尾长与体长之比 0.201。分子系统发育结果显示，棕脊蛇种组各支系的系统地位还需进一步研究厘定。
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[Objectives] Yanbian Keelback Snake Hebius yanbianensis was described based on one specimen, after then, three specimens from Yanbian County in Sichuan Province and three from Yongren County in Yunnan Province were reported. Owing to the limited information of this species, its genetic differentiation, morphological characters, and distribution req...
A new keelback snake of the genus Hebius, H. jingdongensis sp. nov., is reported from Jingdong in Yunnan, China based on a combination of molecular and morphological evidence. Although closest to H. khasiensis and H. boulengeri phylogenetically, this new species is genetically distinct amongst congeners with the mitochondrial Cyt b uncorrected p-di...
The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is the highest and largest mountain plateau in the world, which has become a focus area of amphibian biodiversity research and conservation, depending on its large number of endemic and threatened species. Among the 58 families of Anura, only a few species of four families (Megophryidae, Bufonidae, Dicroglossidae, Ra...
A new species, Achalinus hunanensis sp. nov., is described from middle and western Hunan Province based on the results of molecular systematics and morphological characters. It diverges from known congeners by a significant genetic divergence (p-distance 3.2%-16.9% based on CO1 mitochondrial gene), and it can be distinguished from all known congene...
A new species of Leptobrachella is described from Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality, China. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on
mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences indicated that the new species is genetically divergent from its congeners. It could be identified from its congeners
by a combination of followings characters: body...
A new species of the Asian leaf litter toad genus Leptobrachella from central south China is described. Molecular phylogenetic analyses, based on mitochondrial 16S rRNA and nuclear RAG1 gene sequences indicated the new species as an independent clade in the genus. The new species could be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the fol...
Confused geographical structure of a population and mitonuclear discordance are shaped by a combination of rapid changes in population demographics and shifts in ecology. In this study, we generated a time-calibrated phylogeny of Scutiger boulengeri, an endemic Xizang alpine toad occurring in mountain streams on the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau (...
The newly described species Gloydius huangi Wang, Ren, Dong, Jiang, Siler et Che, 2019 were described based on only three specimens from two sites. We report a new distribution site from Markam County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China with supplementary description on variation of morphology and mitochondrial genetics of the species. The new specimen...
This study presents a comprehensive morphological comparison along with molecular phylogeny of the genus Gloydius based on five mitochondrial genes (12S, 16S, COI, cytb, and ND4). The specimens collected from Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve are shown to be a new species, Gloydius lateralis sp. nov. Zhang, Shi, Jiang & Shi based on a combination...
A new species of the genus Tylototriton sensu lato from Tongzi County, Guizhou Province, China was described. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial 16S and ND2 gene sequences indicated the new species as the most closely related species of T. dabienicus in Henan. The new species could be identified from its congeners by a combinati...
Confused geographical-structure of population and mito-nuclear discordance have been shaped by a combination of rapid population demographic changes and ecological shifts. In this study, we generated a time calibrated phylogeny of Scutiger boulengeri , an endemic Tibetan alpine toad occurring in mountain streams in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, based on t...
A new species of the frog genus Rana sensu lato from Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, China is described. Molecular phylogenetic analyses clustered the new species into the R. johnsi group and indicated that it was genetically divergent from its closely related species. The new species could be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of th...
The genus Tropidophorus consists of small semi-aquatic lizards that dwell in lowland forest steams (Barbour, 1921; Bauer & Jackman, 2008). Here, we designate the neotype and re-describe T. guangxiensis Wen, 1992 based on newly collected topotypic specimens. We also describe a new subspecies from Xuefeng Mountain, Hongjiang County, Hunan Province, c...
The pit vipers of the genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804 is one of the largest groups of Asian snakes, distributed from India to China and Indonesia. Recent surveys in Jiangcheng and Simao, Yunnan Province, China resulted in a new species previously allocated to T. albolabris. Combining morphological and molecular data, we describe it as Trimeresuru...
A new species of the Gekko (Squa ma ta: Gekkonidae) is described from the border of Sichuan and Yunnan Province, southwest China, based on distinct morphological and molecular features. Gekko jinjiangensis sp. nov. is distinguished from congeners by a combination of the following characters: size small (SVL 50.2-61.6 mm, n = 13); nares in contact w...
A new species of genus Megophrys from Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan Province, China is described. Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA all clustered the new species as an independent clade nested into the subgenus Panophrys. The smallest genetic distance based on 16S rRNA gene between the new species and its congeners was...
A new species of the Asian leaf litter toad genus Leptobrachella is described from Guizhou Province, China. Molecular phylogenetic analyses support the new species as an independent lineage deeply nested in the Leptobrachella clade. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following morphological characters: body...
During a field survey in the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition, we collected one adult female, one male juvenile, and six tadpoles of Megophrys major (Megophryidae) group from Dulongjiang
Town, Gongshan County, Yunnan Province, China. A DNA sequences data set combined partial 16S rRNA and COI genes of M. major group were analyzed (Table...
A new species of the genus Megophrys is described from Guizhou Province, China. Molecular phylogenetic analyses supported the new species as an independent clade nested into the Megophrys. The new species could be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following characters: body size moderate (SVL 49.3-58.2 mm in males); vomerine...
The genus Rhabdophis is a group of widely distributed snakes with more than 20 species. Recent field msurveys uncovered a species in southwestern China, which has long been considered as R. pentasupralabialis. Combined molecular and morphological analyses revealed it as a new species Rhabdophis chiwen sp. nov. Based on 12 specimens, this new specie...
A new species of the genus Megophrys from Zhejiang Province, China is described. Molecular phylo-genetic analyses supported the new taxon as an independent clade nested into the Megophrys clade and sister to M. lishuiensis. The new species could be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following morphological characteristics: (1)...
The white-lipped tree viper, Trimeresurus albolabris Gray, is one of the most common species of the genus Trimeresurus with a wide distribution from India eastwards to China and southwards to Indonesia. However, this species was previously split into five geographical clades with significant genetic divergence. Recent surveys in Yingjiang County, Y...
The toad genus Oreolalax is widely distributed in southwest China and northern Vietnam. A new species of the genus is described from Sichuan Province, China. Phylogenetic analyses based on the mitochondrial 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA gene sequences supported the new species as an independent clade clustered into the clade also containing O. nanjiangensi...
Genetic adaptation to extremes is a fascinating topic. Nevertheless, few studies have explored the genetic adaptation of closely related species respectively inhabiting distinct extremes. With deep transcriptome sequencing, we attempt to detect the genetic architectures of tadpoles of five closely related toad species adapted to the Tibetan Plateau...
A new species of the genus Megophrys from Zhejiang Province, China is described. Molecular phylogenetic analyses supported the new taxon as an independent clade nested into the Megophrys clade and sister to M. lishuiensis . The new species could be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following morphological characteristics: (1)...
Ecologists have generally concluded that species distributions are not random (e.g. aggregate), based on single‐species studies that applied single‐species–based statistical methods, like the negative binomial model. Although it is common knowledge that some specific species in an ecological community present aggregate distributions, this does not...
A new species, Leptolalax mangshanensis sp. nov., is described from the Mangshan National Nature Reserve, in Hunan Province, China. The new species is genetically similar to Leptolalax liui, and morphologically similar to Leptolalax maoershanensis. Morphological characteristics that distinguish the new species from its congeners are a small body si...
