''Scutiger chintingensis'', also known as the Chinting lazy toad or Chinting alpine toad, is an endangered species of amphibian in the family

Megophryidae Megophryidae, commonly known as goose frogs, is a large family of frogs native to the warm southeast of Asia, from the Himalayan foothills eastwards, south to Indonesia and the Greater Sunda Islands in Maritime Southeast Asia, and extending to th ...

. It is

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to the

Mount Emei Mount Emei (; ), alternately Mount Omei, is a mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. Mount Emei sits at the western rim of the Sichuan Basin. The mountains west of it are k ...

region of

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, China.

Habitat

The Chinting alpine toad breeds in mountain streams at altitudes of 2,700-3,400 m.

Conservation

The species is classified as

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by the IUCN because of ongoing habitat loss and rapidly declining population sizes. It is known to be present in the protected areas of the

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, the Wawushan National Forest Park, and the

Wolong Nature Reserve Wolong National Nature Reserve (), also known as Wolong Special Administrative Region (), is a protected area located in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China. Established in 1963 with an initial size of about 20,000 hecta ...

References

chintingensis Amphibians of China Endemic fauna of Sichuan Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 1960 {{Megophryidae-stub