Duttaphrynus silentvalleyensis (Pillai, 1981)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Duttaphrynus > Species: Duttaphrynus silentvalleyensis

Bufo silentvalleyensis Pillai, 1981, Bull. Zool. Surv. India, 3: 156. Type(s): Not stated but ZSI-SRS VA/777 is holotype according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 104. Type locality: "near Valiaparai Thodu, Silent Valley Forests, [Kerala,] S. India, Alt. 800 metres".

"Bufo" silentvalleyensisFrost, 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: 364. Excluded from Bufo and unassigned to genus.

Duttaphrynus silentvalleyensisVan Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10.

English Names

Silent Valley Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43; Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 63).

South Indian Hill Toad (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 27).

Silent Valley True Toad (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 2). 

Distribution

Silent Valley National Park and Nilliyampathi Hills in east-centra Kerala, India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 166, suggested that this taxon is a likely synonym of Bufo parietalis and they placed it in their Bufo scaber group. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 27, provided a brief account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature (as Bufo silentvalleyensis). Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 35, provided a very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map.

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