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Firouzophrynus peninsularis (Rao, 1920)
Bufo stomaticus peninsularis Rao, 1920, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 27: 126. Holotype: "in the Indian Museum"; ZSIC 19176 according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 104. Type locality: "Mavkote and Watekille, Coorg", India, the localities given for the "type and syntype" in the original; restricted to the holotype locality, "Mavkote, Watekolle, Coorg”, Karnataka, India by Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 104.
Duttaphrynus peninsularis — Bisht, Garg, Sarmah, Sengupta, and Biju, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 451.
Firouzophrynus peninsularis — Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, and Niamir, 2023, Zootaxa, 5279: 20.
English Names
Peninsular Toad (Bisht, Garg, Sarmah, Sengupta, and Biju, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 460).
Peninsular True Toad (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 2).
Distribution
Northeastern and southwestern Maharashtra south through central Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, and to southern Tamil Nadu, India.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: India
Endemic: India
Comment
Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 104, briefly noted the location and registration of the holotype. Removed from the synonymy of Duttaphrynus scaber, where it had been placed by implication of Srinivasulu, Ganesh, and Srinivasulu, 2013, J. Threatened Taxa, 5: 4789, by Bisht, Garg, Sarmah, Sengupta, and Biju, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 451–470, who reported on systematics, molecular markers, and comparative morphology, placed the species in the Duttaphrynus stomaticus group, illustrated and described the holotype, and noted that specimens of this species had been confused with Duttaphrynus olivaceus. Srinivasulu and Kumar, 2022, J. Threatened Taxa, 14: 21268, reported the species from the state of Telangana, south-central India. Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, and Niamir, 2023, Zootaxa, 5279: 20, transferred the species from Duttaphrynus to Firouzophrynus on the basis of the assignment to the Duttaphrynus stomaticus group by Bisht, Garg, Sarmah, Sengupta, and Biju, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 451.
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