Incilius marmoreus (Wiegmann, 1833)

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

Bufo marmoreus Wiegmann, 1833, Isis von Oken, 26: 661. Syntypes: ZMB 3529-31, according to Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 81. Type locality: "mexicanischen"; rendered as "Vera Cruz", Veracruz, Mexico, by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 58, who reported the jar labels.

Bufo argillaceus Cope, 1868, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 20: 138. Syntypes: USNM 27763–64 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 58, and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 31. Type locality: "Colima, Western Mexico". Restricted to "Colima", Colima, Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 328. Synonymy by Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 162: 246; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 130.

Bufo marmoratusBoulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 281. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Bufo lateralis Werner, 1894, Zool. Anz., 17: 156. Holotype: Not stated; NHMW 22865, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 14, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 18. Type locality: "Tehuantepec", Oaxaca, Mexico. Provisionally considered a synonym of Bufo canaliferus by Boulenger, 1895, Zool. Rec., 31: 40. Synonymy by Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 162: 246; Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 45.

Bufo eiteli Ahl, 1927 "1926", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1926: 111–112. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered in the original publication; this being ZMB 27913 by museum records. Type locality: "Puerto Mexico" (near Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz), Veracruz, Mexico. Tentative synonymy by Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 82.

Cranopsis marmoreaFrost, 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 marmoreaFrost, Grant, and Mendelson, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 558, by implication.

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

Common Names

Wiegmann's Toad (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 104; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 40).

Marbled Toad (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 82; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 40; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 17; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 18).

Distribution

From extreme southern Sonora south to Chiapas along the Pacific coastal plain; an isolated population in the region of the city of Veracruz on the Atlantic coast, Mexico, below 1080 m elevation; reported for Hidalgo, Mexico (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the former Bufo marmoreus group of Martin, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 51. See account by McDiarmid and Hardy, 1969, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 81–82. Mendelson, Mulcahy, Williams, and Sites, 2011, Zootaxa, 3138: 1–34, suggested that Incilius canaliferus is a members in an unnamed monophyletic group (the name Incilius marmoreus group is availabe-DRF) that includes Incilius canaliferus, Incilius marmoreus, and Incilius perplexusOliver-López, Woolrich-Piña, and Lemos-Espinal, 2009, Fam. Bufonidae Mex.: 78–80, provided an account for Mexico (as Ollotis marmorea). Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 104–115, compared this species to others in Central America and provided a range map and photograph. Lemos-Espinal and Smith, 2015, Check List, 11(1642): 1–11, noted the occurrence of the species in Hidalgo, Mexico, although with no definite locality. Rorabaugh and Lemos-Espinal, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Sonora: 136–138, provided a detailed account of natural history, morphology, and conservation status in Sonora, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 354–355, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal, Smith, and Valdes-Lares, 2019, Amph. Rept. Durango: 52–53, provided a brief account for Durango, Mexico, although the single record is doubtful on geographic grounds (DRF). Loc-Barragán, Smith, Woolrich-Piña, and Lemos-Espinal, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 30, reported on the distributional and conservation status in the state of Nayarit, Mexico.     

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