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Duttaphrynus brevirostris (Rao, 1937)
Bufo brevirostris Rao, 1937, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 6: 403. Holotype: CCB (no number given); lost according to Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 157. Type locality: "Kempholey, Hassan District, Mysore State", India.
"Bufo" brevirostris — Frost, 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: 363. Excluded from Bufo and unassigned to genus.
Duttaphrynus brevirostris — Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 4.
English Names
Kempholey Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40).
Short-nosed Toad (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 63).
Rao's Pale Brown Toad (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 19).
Distribution
Known from three localities in Karnataka state, India: (1) Kempholey, Hassan District; (2) Bhagamandala, Kodagu district; and (3) Manipal, Udupi district.
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: India
Endemic to the political unit: India
Comment
Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 168-169, discussed this dubious taxon. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 19, provided a brief account. Frost, 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, suggested that this species is not a member of the monophyletic taxon Bufo (the former Bufo bufo group), but could not allocate this species to any of the other genera either, instead leaving this species in a non-taxon "Bufo". Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted only one extended larval description (as Bufo brevirostris). Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 4, suggested that records from Kerala are probably based on misidentifications. Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 34, provided a very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map. Bisht, Garg, Sarmah, Sengupta, and Biju, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 451–470, addressed the systematics, molecular markers, and comparative morphology of the species.
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