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Peltophryne longinasus (Stejneger, 1905)
Bufo longinasus Stejneger, 1905, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 28: 765. Holotype: USNM 27419, by original designation. Type locality: "El Guama, Pinar del Rio [Province], Cuba".
Bufo longinasus longinasus — Barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82: 96.
Bufo longinasus cajalbanensis Valdés de la Osa and Ruiz-García, 1980, Poeyana, 206: 21. Holotype: IZ 518, by original designation; now in CZACC. Type locality: "Meseta de Cajálbana, a 305 m de altura sobre el nivel del mar", Cuba.
Peltophryne longinasa — Pregill, 1981, Copeia, 1981: 273.
Peltophryne longinasus — Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 74; Frost, 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: 365.
Bufo longinasus — Hedges, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 100, by implication; Pramuk, 2000, J. Herpetol., 34: 334.
Common Names
Stejneger's Caribbean Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).
Cuban Long-nosed Toad (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 187).
Western Cuba Long-nosed Toad (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 8).
Distribution
Pizarras del Sur and Sierra del Guaso), 100–820 m elevation, in Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Cuba
Endemic: Cuba
Comment
See Valdés de la Osa and Ruiz-García, 1980, Poeyana, 206: 1-34, for account in the sense of including Pelophryne ramsdeni and Peltophryne dunni as subspecies. The species name is a noun in apposition. See comment under Bufo gundlachi. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo longinasus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 187. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 1-294, provided accounts by subspecies, as Bufo longinasus. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 29–30, summarized the natural history literature (as Bufo empusus). Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 9, provided a dot map and localities. Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 8, discussed the systematics of this species and near relatives.
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