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Pelophryne brevipes (Peters, 1867)
Hylaplesia brevipes Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 34. Syntypes: (2 specimens) ZMB and NHMW 16554 (according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 20; and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 25). Type locality: "Zamboanga", Mindanao, Philippines.
Bufo brevipes — Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 193; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 287.
Pelophryne brevipes — Barbour, 1938, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 51: 194.
Common Names
Zamboanga Flathead Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).
Distribution
Mindanao and Basilan Island, Philippines.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Philippines
Endemic: Philippines
Comment
See Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 236-239, for account; Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 38, regarded Nectophryne signata (Borneo) and Hylaplesia brevipes (Philippines) to be separate species. See comment under Pelophryne signata. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 84, discussed the confusion surrounding the recognition/non-recognition of Pelophryne signata. See brief account by Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 15–17. Matsui, 2019, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 38: 137, briefly discussed the taxonomic confusion surrounding this name. See comments by Baron, Marin, Logramonte, and Mohagan, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 76–87. Pitogo, Saavedra, and Afuang, 2021, Philipp. J. Sci., 150: 1279–1306, provided a brief description of natural history.
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