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Leptobrachella platycephala

species of amphibian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ81849855 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leptobrachella platycephala is a species of frogs in the family Megophryidae. It is endemic to Peninsular Malaysia and known only from its type locality, Mount Benum in Pahang.

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The public source identifies “Leptobrachella platycephala” as species of amphibian. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Leptobrachella, platycephala and species.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 28-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Leptobrachella, platycephala and species providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q81849855. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Leptobrachella platycephala” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.