Incilius cycladen (Lynch and Smith, 1966)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Incilius > Species: Incilius cycladen

Bufo cycladen Lynch and Smith, 1966, Southwest. Nat., 11: 19. Holotype: UIMNH 57142, by original designation. Type locality: "3 mi. S Putla de Guerrero, Oaxaca, Mexico".

Cranopsis cycladenFrost, 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.

Ollotis cycladenFrost, Grant, and Mendelson, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 558, by implication.

Incilius cycladenFrost, Mendelson, and Pramuk, 2009, Copeia, 2009: 418–419, by implication.

Common Names

Northern Roundgland Toad (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 17; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 41).

Northern Round-gland Toad (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 18).

Distribution

A relatively narrow elevational band in tropical deciduous forest-pine/oak woodland ecotone along the Pacific slope of the Sierra Madre del Sur in central Guerrero to western Oaxaca, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the former Bufo coccifer complex and removed from the synonymy of Bufo coccifer by Mendelson, Williams, Sheil, and Mulcahy, 2005, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 38: 11, where it had been placed by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 207. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo cycladen) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 182. Mendelson, Mulcahy, Williams, and Sites, 2011, Zootaxa, 3138: 1–34, suggested that Incilius canaliferus is a member of a monophyletic Incilius coccifer group that includes Incilius coccifer, Incilius cycladen, Incilius ibarrai, Incilius pisinnus, Incilius porteri, and Incilius signiferOliver-López, Woolrich-Piña, and Lemos-Espinal, 2009, Fam. Bufonidae Mex.: 72–74, provided an account for Mexico (as Ollotis cycladen).

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