Phrynoidis juxtasper (Inger, 1964)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Phrynoidis > Species: Phrynoidis juxtasper

Bufo juxtasper Inger, 1964, Fieldiana, Zool., 44: 154. Holotype: FMNH 77472, by original designation. Type locality: "on the banks of the Sungei Tawan, Kalabakan, Tawau District, Sabah", Malaysia (Borneo).

Phrynoidis juxtasperaFrost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 365. Incorrect gender. 

Phrynoidis juxtasper — Schmidtler, 2013, Herpetozoa, Wien, 26: 15-26, by implication of gender correction.

English Names

Sungei Tawan Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42).

Giant River Toad (Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 150; Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 28).

Distribution

Borneo, Sumatra, and Bunguran I. (Natuna Is.), Indonesia, below 1600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Comment

In the Bufo asper group of Inger, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 107. See Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 69-70, for account. Confused by some authors with Bufo asper. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 31-32. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 77-80, provided an account. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 149, provided a brief description. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 28, provided a photograph and a brief account (as Bufo juxtasper). Amram, Zainudin, and Wahid, 2018, Sains Malaysiana, 47: 1-7, reported on the mating call. Haas, Kueh, Joseph, bin Asri, Das, Hagmann, Schwander, and Hertwig, 2018, Evol. Syst., 2: 89–114, documented larval morphology. Haas, Kueh, Joseph, bin Asri, Das, Hagmann, Schwander, and Hertwig, 2018, Evol. Syst., 2: 89–114, provided a brief account of morphology and natural history for the Sabah population. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 123–126, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration. Herlambang, Riyanto, Munir, Hamidy, Kimura, Eto, and Mumpuni, 2022, Treubia, 49: 78, reported the species from Bunguran I., Natuna Is., Indonesia. 

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