The tadpoles of five Megophrys Horned frogs (Amphibia: Megophryidae) from the Hoang Lien Range, Vietnam Author Tapley, Benjamin 0000-0002-2011-9143 Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, NW 1 4 RY, United Kingdom. Author Nguyen, Luan Thanh 0000-0002-4663-125X Asian Turtle Program - Indo-Myanmar Conservation, CT 1 Bac Ha C 14 Building, To Huu Road, Ha Noi, Vietnam. nguyenluanbio @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4663 - 125 X nguyenluanbio@gmail.com Author Cutajar, Timothy 0000-0001-7841-9205 Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William St, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia. timothy. cutajar @ australian. museum; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7841 - 9205 timothy.cutajar@australian.museum Author Nguyen, Chung Thanh 0000-0001-8533-9721 Hoang lien National Park, Sa Pa, Lao Cai, Vietnam. chung. crco @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8533 - 9721 chung.crco@gmail.com Author Portway, Christopher 0000-0001-7841-9205 Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William St, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia. timothy. cutajar @ australian. museum; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7841 - 9205 timothy.cutajar@australian.museum Author Luong, Hao Van 0000-0001-8533-9721 Hoang lien National Park, Sa Pa, Lao Cai, Vietnam. chung. crco @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8533 - 9721 chung.crco@gmail.com Author Rowley, Jodi J. L. 0000-0001-7841-9205 Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William St, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia. timothy. cutajar @ australian. museum; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7841 - 9205 & Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. Jodi. Rowley @ austmus. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2011 - 9143 timothy.cutajar@australian.museum text Zootaxa 2020 2020-09-01 4845 1 35 52 journal article 8634 10.11646/zootaxa.4845.1.3 0d5dbc26-d59b-44d8-aa1e-bc6b29f10b76 1175-5326 4477449 31356730-E2A0-4D57-B10C-0850C41786F4

TABLE 1. Comparisons between tadpoles of Megophrys species from the Hoang Lien Range. Measurements are presented as mean (range). All measurements in preservative unless stated otherwise. * Denotes measurement obtained from only one specimen. ^ Denotes mean value used to calculate ratios.

Subgenus	Atympanophrys		Panophrys					Xenophrys
Species	M. gigantica		M. fansipanensis	M. jingdongensis		M. hoanglienensis	M. rubrimera	M. maosonensis
	this study	Fei et al. 2009	this study	this study	Fei et al. 2009		Tapley et al. 2017	this study	Fei et al. 2009
GenBank	MT412122, MT413142		MT413143	MT413144		MT413146		MT412390
N	5		2	1		1	1	2	10
Gosner Stage	35	34	25	25	37	26	37	25	37–39
BL	16.9 (15.7–18.0)	12.8	9.1 (7.4–10.8)	8.9	9.7	7.1	10.5	8.8 (8.1–9.5)	14.1 (12.5–15)
BH	7.9 (7.6–8.3)		3.3 (2.7–3.9)	3.4		3.7		3.3 (2.8–3.7)
BS	6.3 (4.2–7.5)		3.3 (2.9–3.6)	3.6		3.0		4.2 (3.6–4.7)
BW	8.9 (8.5–9.2)	7.7	4.7 (3.5–5.8)	4.1		4.6	5.4	4.1 (–)	7.5 (7–8)
ED	1.6 (1.3–1.8)		0.7 (0.5–0.8)	0.6		0.7		0.9 (0.8–1.0)
ES	5.5 (5.2–6.0)		3.6 (2.8–4.4)	3.2		1.9		2.4 (2.2–2.5)
IND	4.6 (4.2–5.1)		2.6 (1.8–3.3)	1.9		2.1		2.4 (2.1–2.6)
IOD	6.8 (6.1–7.3)		3.6 (2.5–4.6)	2.7		3.2		3.3 (3.0–3.5)
NE	1.6 (1.4–1.7)		0.9 (0.8–1.0)	0.8		0.4		1.0 (0.9–1.0)
SN	4.0 (3.6–4.2)		2.7 (1.9–3.4)	2.5		1.0		1.3 (1.1–1.4)
SS	10.8 (9.8–13.8)		5.0 (4.6–5.3)	5.3		4.3		5.0 (4.9–5.1)
ODW	8.2 (7.5–8.9)		3.6 (2.9–4.3)	2.6		2.2	4.5	2.7 (2.6–2.8)
LFH	2.9 (2.4–3.3)		1.3 (0.9–1.6)	1.2		1.1		1.4 (–)
MTH	8.7 (8.2–9.0)	7.6	4.8 (3.7–5.9)	4.4	7.0	4.7	5.9	5.6 (5.5–5.6)	8.1 (7.4–9)
TAL	33.8 (26.9–36.9)		21.7 (19.1–24.3)	19.0		19.4	22.8	27.4 (26.3–28.5)	34.8 (29–38.5)
TTL	50.7 (42.6–54.9)	39.0	30.8 (26.5–35.0)	27.9	35.5	26.5	33.3	35.5 (34.4–36.6)	49.0
TMH	4.9 (4.4–5.4)		2.7 (1.9–3.4)	2.8	5.9	3.0	3.1	3.6 (3.5–3.7)	5.5 (5–6)
TMW	3.8 (3.2–4.1)	3.1	2.5 (1.7–3.2)	2	6.0	2.0	3.4	2.3 (2.1–2.5)	4.6 (3.6–5.4)
UFH	2.1 (1.6–2.6)		1.25 (0.9–1.6)	1		0.9		1.8 (1.7–1.9)
ODW in life	14.7*		5.4*	5.1*		5.8*		5.6*
BW/ODW in life	62.6*		63.0*	80.4*		79.3*		73.2*
TMW/BW	42.1 (37.2–45.1)	40.3*	51.9 (48.6–55.2)	55.2		43.5	60.0	56.1 (51.2–61)	61.3^
Mouthpart shape	hastate		bi-triangular	bi-triangular		bi-triangular	bi-triangular	bi-triangular
Pattern on tail	absent	present	present	present	present	present	present	present	present
Tail tip	broadly rounded	broadly rounded	pointed	rounded	illustrated pointed, rounded in text	pointed	rounded	narrowly rounded	pointed