Ansonia minuta Inger, 1960

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Ansonia > Species: Ansonia minuta

Ansonia minuta Inger, 1960, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 493. Holotype: FMNH 77424, by original designation. Type locality: "in primary forest at 450 feet above sea level at Matang, First Division, Sarawak", Malaysia (Borneo).

English Names

Tiny Stream Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 39).

Minute Slender Toad (Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 141).

Dwarf Slender Toad (Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 110).

Distribution

Western and central Sarawak and Sabah (Malaysia) and adjacent western Kalimantan (Indonesia), Borneo, 200-1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 26, to compare this species with others in the Sunda Shelf region. Matsui, 2006, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 25: 1-14, reported the species for Sabah, Malaysia. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 141-174, provided a photograph and natural history information. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 610. Wong, Makbul, and Yambun Imbun, 2021, J. Trop. Biol. Conserv., 18: 31–42, reported the species from Kadamaian, Kota Belud, Sabah, East Malaysia. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 110–114, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration. 

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