''Scutiger ningshanensis'' is a species of

toad Toad (also known as a hoptoad) is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands. In popular culture (folk taxonomy ...

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 t ...

known commonly as the Ningshan lazy toad and Ningshan alpine toad.Frost, D. R
''Scutiger ningshanensis''.
Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.6, 2013. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Ningshan County in

Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It is a poorly known species; only two specimens have been collected, both from one location. The species has been recorded in

grass Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and spe ...

y habitat near forest streams at up to 2550 meters in elevation. It may face threats from small-scale farming in the area.

References

ningshanensis Amphibians of China Endemic fauna of China Amphibians described in 1985 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Megophryidae-stub