Limnonectes dabanus
Creators: name: Nguyen, Vien Hong Thi
name: Phan, Tien Quang
name: Do, Dang Trong
name: Nguyen, Truong Quang
name: Ziegler, Thomas
name: Pham, Cuong The
name: Pham, Anh Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Dicroglossidae
Limnonectes
Limnonectes dabanus

description: Limnonectes dabanus (Smith, 1922)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IEBR A. 6337 (field No. BT. 2022.18); individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 69E304D0-543C-547E-AAD1-0EF3841FAFA5; Taxon: scientificNameID: Limnonectes dabanus; scientificName: Limnonectes dabanus; class: Amphibia; order: Anura; family: Dicroglossidae; genus: Limnonectes; specificEpithet: dabanus; scientificNameAuthorship: Smith, 1922; Location: country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Binh Thuan; county: Binh Thuan; municipality: Ham Thuan Nam; locality: Ta Kou Nature Reserve; verbatimElevation: 350; verbatimLatitude: 10°48'43.6"N; verbatimLongitude: 107°53'38.7"E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: eventDate: March 25, 2022; eventRemarks: collected by AV Pham; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Amphibians; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IEBR A. 6338 (field No. BT. 2022.19); individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 20BD3F99-C308-525D-9D9E-D932E31E82C2; Taxon: scientificNameID: Limnonectes dabanus; scientificName: Limnonectes dabanus; class: Amphibia; order: Anura; family: Dicroglossidae; genus: Limnonectes; specificEpithet: dabanus; scientificNameAuthorship: Smith, 1922; Location: country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Binh Thuan; county: Binh Thuan; municipality: Ham Thuan Nam; locality: Ta Kou Nature Reserve; verbatimElevation: 350; verbatimLatitude: 10°48'43.6"N; verbatimLongitude: 107°53'38.7"E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: eventDate: March 25, 2022; eventRemarks: collected by AV Pham; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Amphibians; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IEBR A. 6339 (field No. BT. 2022.20); individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: CAFB0FB5-8FC1-5DFE-8B30-7701C554C1BE; Taxon: scientificNameID: Limnonectes dabanus; scientificName: Limnonectes dabanus; class: Amphibia; order: Anura; family: Dicroglossidae; genus: Limnonectes; specificEpithet: dabanus; scientificNameAuthorship: Smith, 1922; Location: country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Binh Thuan; county: Binh Thuan; municipality: Ham Thuan Nam; locality: Ta Kou Nature Reserve; verbatimElevation: 350; verbatimLatitude: 10°48'43.6"N; verbatimLongitude: 107°53'38.7"E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: eventDate: March 25, 2022; eventRemarks: collected by AV Pham; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Amphibians; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IEBR A. 6340 (field No. BT. 2022.21); individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F74F9FE9-277E-570C-BFD3-8B4180AE086F; Taxon: scientificNameID: Limnonectes dabanus; scientificName: Limnonectes dabanus; class: Amphibia; order: Anura; family: Dicroglossidae; genus: Limnonectes; specificEpithet: dabanus; scientificNameAuthorship: Smith, 1922; Location: country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Binh Thuan; county: Binh Thuan; municipality: Ham Thuan Nam; locality: Ta Kou Nature Reserve; verbatimElevation: 350; verbatimLatitude: 10°48'43.6"N; verbatimLongitude: 107°53'38.7"E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: eventDate: March 25, 2022; eventRemarks: collected by AV Pham; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Amphibians; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Description
One sequence of 560 bps (16 S gene) from specimen IEBR A. 6338 (GenBank accession number PV 444292) of Limnonectes specimen from Ta Kou Nature Reserve, Binh Thuan Province was similar (99.5 %) to the available sequence of L. dabanus (accession number MK 688610) on GenBank.
Morphological characters of specimens from Binh Thuan Province agreed with the descriptions of Bourret (1942), Lambertz et al. (2014) and Pham et al. (2019). Size medium, males slightly larger than females (SVL 52.4-53.3 mm in males, n = 2; 44.7-44.9 mm in females, n = 2); head width broader than long (HL 23.5-27.3 mm, HW 23.8-27.6 mm in males; 18.2-18.3 mm, 18.3-18.5 mm in females); snout round anteriorly in dorsal view; rostral length greater than eye diameter (RL 8.5-9.5 mm, ED 5.7-5.9 mm in males; 6.8-7.1 mm, 5.1-5.2 mm in females); tympanum distinct, smaller than the eye diameter (TD / ED 0.90-0.91 in males, 0.85-0.88 in females); vomerine teeth in two oblique ridges; tongue cordiform, deeply notched posteriorly; lower jaw with two tooth, well developed; lacking vocal sacs in males (Table 1 and Fig. 1).
Arms short; fingers free of webbing; tips of fingers blunt, not expanded; finger I with nuptial pad, without minute spines in males. Tibia length shorter than thigh; tips of toes blunt, round; webbing well developed, formula I 0–1 / 3 II 0 – 1 / 4 III 0 – 1 IV 1 – 0 V; tibio-tarsal articulation reaching to the eye (Fig. 2).
Skin texture in life: Dorsal surface of head smooth with a swollen flap in males; dorsal surface of body and flanks with tubercles; supratympanic fold distinct; dorsal surface of limbs and thighs smooth; dorsal surface of tibia with small tubercles; throat, chest, belly and ventral surface of thighs smooth.
Colouration in life: Dorsal surface of head, body and flanks light brown with dark brown marking; dorsal surface of fore- and hind-limbs light brown with dark crossbars; ventral surface of limbs, throat, chest and belly white (Fig. 1).
Distribution
In Vietnam, this species has been reported from Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Lam Dong, Dong Nai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Ninh Thuan and Khanh Hoa Provinces (Do et al. 2017, Pham et al. 2019, Frost 2025). Elsewhere, the species is known from Cambodia (Frost 2025). This is the first record of L. dabanus from Binh Thuan Province.
Ecology
The frogs were found between 21: 00 and 22: 30 h in rocky streams. Surrounding habitat consisted of mixed secondary forest composed of small to medium hardwoods and shrubs. Air temperature was 25–30 ° C and relative humidity was 55–70 %.
description: Published as part of Nguyen, Vien Hong Thi, Phan, Tien Quang, Do, Dang Trong, Nguyen, Truong Quang, Ziegler, Thomas, Pham, Cuong The & Pham, Anh Van, 2025, New provincial records of the genus Limnonectes (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae) from South Central, Vietnam, pp. e 146098 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e146098, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e146098