Firouzophrynus peninsularis (Rao, 1920)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Firouzophrynus > Species: Firouzophrynus peninsularis

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 peninsularisBisht, Garg, Sarmah, Sengupta, and Biju, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 451. 

Firouzophrynus peninsularis — Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, and Niamir, 2023, Zootaxa, 5279: 20. 

Common 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. Ganesh and Guptha, 2021, J. Anim. Diversity, 3(3): 22, provided records from the Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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